Situations in which you might want to convert a PDSE to a PDS follow:

• You are shipping the PDSE to a system that does not support PDSEs.
• An application does not run against a PDSE.
• A system is sharing the PDSE (using shared DASD) with a system that does not support PDSE access.

To convert a PDSE to a PDS, specify a DSNTYPE of PDS in the JCL or data class definition.