>Tom, > >Why convert to PDSE? I am curious? A stated IBM direction?
Converting to PDSE just makes it easier to use or move to COBOL V5.1. PDSE is far better than PDS, lots of advantages, so you could view it as IBM direction, but for COBOL, that is the only thing we can do. In COBOL V5.1, we always generate parts of the object program with loadable user classes, which are only supported by Program Objects. Load Modules only support class B_TEXT or B_PRV in object programs. As Frank Swarbick suggested, it might be an option to use new PDSE Load Libraries for newer code and add the new libraries to concatenations. That would provide a one module at a time migration path, but it also might add too much complexity to application build and maintenance. The good people here on IBMMAIN would know much better than I would. Is that a reasonable option, to just start using PDSEs from one day in the future for any programs recompiled with COBOL V5.1? Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
