The last I looked you couldn't have PDSE in the initial link list, although you could add it dynamically.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES. On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:28:44 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 15:35:55 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>It's a shame that the capabilities of PDSE aren't a superset of the >>capabilities >>of PDS. > >They are, with the exception of scatter-load. I believe that is used only for >the system nucleus. > Others: o At times I've needed to resort to PDS rather than PDSE because of cross-plex sharing constraints on PDSE. o Does PDSE impose a stricter constraint on number of records in a single member than PDS? Perhaps 16Mi? o Could an installation convert *all* its PDS to PDSE and never deal with PDS again? Is this precluded only by the scatter-load limitation? What abour PARMLIB-type data sets? o A PDS with RECFM=U can contain both load modules and non-load module data members. The analogous is not possible with PDSE. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
