On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:31:44 -0600, Joel Ewing  wrote:

>On 01/15/2015 03:29 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Joel Ewing wrote:
>>> --------------------------SNIP-------------------------------
>>> If a PDSE library could have been multi-volume, that might have been one
>>> path to eliminate our requirement for PACK.
>>>
>>> --
>> Joel:
>> I could SWEAR that in one of the announcements in the last year (or so)
>> that PDSE's would support multivolume. Or am I just incorrect.
>> 
Wouldn't EAV be an alternative solution?  Or is there another restriction?
(54 GB is *so* 20th Century.)

>z/OS 2.1 "DFSMS Using Data Sets" (2014) still lists single-volume
>restriction for PDSE.  But APAR "OA45917 NON-AMS PDSE CAN BE ALLOCATED
>AS MULTIVOLUME" reports that an unusable "not valid" PDSE can actually
>be allocated as multivolume via JCL in z/OS 2.1, closed FIN 2014-09-04.
> Perhaps the fix will be to make it valid?  In any event too late for me
>-- been retired 3 1/2 years.

-- gil

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