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From: "John R. Ehrman , 408-463-3543 T/543-" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:59 PM
Subject: PDS vs. PDSE
PDSEs have been available for a long time, and provide many
advantages over PDSs. Why are people reluctant to use PDSEs?
John Ehrman
John,
PDSE's have a bad reputation, well-deserved. The service stream is still
fairly active for PDSE's, where PDS's are fairly calm. I only use PDSE's
where absolutely necessary (i.e. program objects or other software
distributed in PDSE's). The only major advantage of a PDSE is dynamic space
reclaim, but IMNSHO, the risk of using them is not worth that benefit. So I
gotta compress some PDS's from time to time. I'll take the reliability any
day of the week.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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