what is the difference between PDS and a library?can we move a members of a PDS to a library.
I'm confused by this discussion. A PDS and a library in my experience are the same thing with different names. It's like car and automobile. A source library may be more frequently referred to as a PDS while a load library is more frequently referred to as a library. Either way they are both partitioned datasets designed to contain multiple, uniquely named "members".
A PDS or library may have differet attributes. Typically a source PDS has a fixed block record format (RECFM=FB), perhaps with a logical record length (LRECL) of 80 and an SMS optimized block size (BLKSIZE) of 27920. Typically a load library uses unformated records (RECFM=U) and a block size of 6160.
