Luke Rabbe of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu>
wrote on 11/23/2009 07:54:28 AM:

> I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change
> the proclib concatenations dynamically and also the ability to
> rebuild pointers if a library has gone into extents or been compressed.
>
> My shop uses static concatenations.  We haven't needed to change the
> proclib concatenations in several years and JCL can be used to
> rebuild JES2's pointers if needed.  I'd like to convert to dynamic
> proclibs because it seems more modern and cooler.  But I wonder if
> it's really necessary for my installation and maybe I'd just be
> doing work for work's sake.
>
> Any opinions?  Am I missing some benefits?

One benefit of JCLLIB might be reduced search time for a procedure.
Another might be documentation when looking for the source of the PROC.

Regards,
John K

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