That *assumes* you use those facilities.

Ed
On Jan 25, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:

The one reason I know of what a PDSE is required is because TEST/ DEBUG information is now stored in a DWARF NOLOAD segment, and those are only supported by PDSE (or UNIX directory).

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:55:31 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: COBOL v5
To: [email protected]

If by "requires" you mean in some absolute fundamental logical/ technical sense, you may well be right. This might be a "marketing" restriction for
all any of us knows.

OTOH I can assure you it requires a PDSE in the sense that if you compile a program using COBOL 5.2 and attempt to bind the resulting object code into an executable, the binder will fail if SYSLMOD references a PDS -- so in
that sense I assure you that COBOL 5.2 "requires" a PDSE.

Charles

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I would argue the word "requires" I suspect (and cannot prove) that COBOL 5
can work perfectly fine without a PDSE.
I would be happy to be proven wrong.

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