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Why the UNPRINTABLE should services for what should be a basic data set
type NOT be in the Nucleus?
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That all depends on how large you want NIP and the nucleus to be.
Personally, I'd rather not see my IPL time extended by services I choose
not to use. And since IBM has chosen NOT to show off the details of PDSE
support, none of us has a good idea of how large that support needs to
be, nor the amount of code necessary to reliably read PDSE members.
(Hint, Hint, IBM!!!) :-)
Since other mainframe PCM's have walked away from the 64-bit world, OCO
is even more senseless now than it was 20 years ago.
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