There is a case to be made for making PDSE support available earlier, even very early, and even if it is initially rudimentary (like the quondam very-early-in-the-initialization-process support for reading only unblocked card images from a PDS member).
That case is that as things now stand both PDS support---long in the tooth and radically unsatisfactory in many ways---and PDSE support must go forward together forever. Getting rid of PDSs finally and definitively would be highly desirable, but there is no likelihood of any such IBM action in the proximate future. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
