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PDS Compress

Sysparm IOTRACKS also affects PDS directory processing. Tests have also shown that for directories in the range of one track or less (which is 46 directory blocks or less on a 3380), setting IOTRACKS to 1 can improve performance. If tests verify this in your environment, supply this value as a permanent sysparm override to the PDS Compress function.

Previous recommendations to exclude SMP/E data sets still being kept as PDSs (rather than VSAM data sets) are no longer applicable. The revisions allow all partitioned data sets to be processed equally well.