John Ehrman of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu>
wrote on 02/10/2010 01:46:57 PM:

> PDSEs have been available for a long time, and provide many
> advantages over PDSs. Why are people reluctant to use PDSEs?

I think of a few...

1. Lack of internal documentation.
2. Former requirement that they must be SMS managed.
3. No recovery of deleted/updated members.
4. Performance.

I don't see IBM using them very much.  Only nine SYS1 datasets are PO-E.

Regards,
John K

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