It may perhaps be time to restate the obvious.

LINKLST has come to be  used in situations remote from its original
narrow focus, which was to improve real and virtual program-fetch
performance from certain system datasets.

It does this well, but it was never intended that volatile program
libraries---those some of the members of which are frequently
replaced---be included in it.

The natural, appropriate update time for LINKLST is IPL time,  Some
sysprogs in some shops may well be able to cheat on this in some
situations; but the competence and judg[e]ment required to do so are
personal; and these cheats should not be institutionalized; in
particular, their use should never be delegated to people of 'junior
understanding'.  They should probably not even be talked about much.

So far as I can judge from what has been posted here, the real problem
is not an arcane, PDSE-related one.  It is that some libraries that do
not belong there have made their way into LINKLST.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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