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SMP/E Features

SMP/E offers significant performance advantages, such as:

• Displays that operate under ISPF/PDF
• Dynamic allocation of data sets
• Improved exception processing of system modifications (SYSMODs)
• New VSAM SMP/E control data sets

Use of a single version of SMP/E greatly simplifies maintenance, training, and support requirements. While different versions of SMP/E can coexist to ease your conversion and migration, CSIs formatted under one version are not available under the other version. Therefore, if your site is using multiple versions of SMP/E, you should determine whether plans exist to consolidate processing using a single version of SMP/E.