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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS PDS/PDSE
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

Share PDSE cross sysplex

Enhancement of PDSEs to be able to be shared cross sysplex. Currently, PDSE could not be shared outside a SYSPLEX.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 24, 2020

    Or possibly IBM could remove the bit that forces us to have PDSEs out of Cobol V6? I believe that was done with PL/1, by providing a compile option. Could the same thing be done with Cobol?

    This PDSE thing is a very major stumbling block for many of your clients.

  • Guest
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    |     May 7, 2020

    Hello, checking back on this very desirable enhancement request and hoping to find that it is in-progress as the PDSE requirement when upgrading from Enterprise COBOL 4.2 to 5+, 6.3 for us, presents significant work with our dozens of SCM build processes and between 1100-1200 or so COBOL load libraries, many of which are shared across sysplexes.

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