On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 15:19:25 UTC, Bernd Oppolzer  wrote:
> In the PL/1 mailing list, Peter Elderon (IBM) explicitly stated that there
> are no plans to force the PL/1 users to PDSEs, so IMO this is not true 
> for PL/1,
> at least.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Bernd
> 

Perusing the latest PL/I Programming Guide, there are many, many instances 
where if you want to use a particular thing, you need to use a PDSE for the 
executable output, because it is a Program Object.

You're not "forced" to use a PDSE in exactly the way you're not forced to use 
any feature which requires a Program Object.

That is equally true with COBOL. Use V4.2 or earlier.

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