On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:28:58 -0600, Paul Gorlinsky  wrote:
>
>    ... I believe IBM's PDS update program shipped with software distributions 
> had code to update in place; 
>
I believe that UADS is (was?) updated by such a technique.

>    ... Why else did they come up with PDSEs ( and use VSAM )? Which I think 
> might have performance issues. 
>
Among other things, PDSE supports concurrent update of multiple members.

-- 
gil

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