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The OPSEXEC and OPSCOMP Libraries

As described earlier, when you invoke a program, OPS/REXX first looks for a precompiled version of it in the OPSEXEC libraries. If the program is found, OPS/REXX loads and executes it. If OPS/REXX cannot find the program in the OPSEXEC libraries, it looks in the SYSEXEC libraries and, after finding it, reads, compiles, and runs it.

If you plan to precompile and execute OPS/REXX programs, you must allocate two different ddnames, OPSCOMP and OPSEXEC. If you never intend to precompile OPS/REXX programs, but you do plan to execute them, you need to allocate only the OPSEXEC ddname.