PDSE versus PDS

I had this brainstorm to convert a few of out linklibs (used in our
CICS regions) from PDSs to PDSEs.

I was told that the drawback to this is that the necessary space will
be of the order of 2 - 3 times that of the original PDS.

How accurate is that stmt?

Is it an old wives tale/hogwash ?

Thanks

S.R.Kayara wrote:

> I had this brainstorm to convert a few of out linklibs (used in our
> CICS regions) from PDSs to PDSEs.
>
> I was told that the drawback to this is that the necessary space will
> be of the order of 2 - 3 times that of the original PDS.
>
> How accurate is that stmt?
>
> Is it an old wives tale/hogwash ?
>
> Thanks
The biggest advantage of a PDSE is that you do not have to compress it.
Do you change the library contents that often?

Do you need to share the library across systems?

When you define it, the dataset will have to have free space - I beleive
how much is under your control.

I don't think I would, as I'm not sure what advantage, if any, you would
receive for the additional complexity.

/s/ bill turner, wb4alm


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