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The traditional limitation to 2^16-1 = 65535 tracks is one more instance of control-block overflow, here that of in an unsigned halfword field.
PDS support is 'functionally stabilized', i.e., frozen. For this and other
reasons it is thus---with the well-known exceptions of system data sets that
must be accessed shortly after an IPL---it is now usually better to use PDSEs.
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Not to mention the vast numbr of OEM programs that would be "broken" by
a change in the format of the answer from a NOTE request.
Rick
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