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You're welcome - though, i wasn't near as much help as nevilh

I see nothing amiss with my name. Dick is fine - Mr. was my dad

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Well, it was you that said

Is it possible that the pdse load only actually read dasd once and then used the previously read module?

That didn't lead anywhere, but with some prodding by nevilh, this ultimately led to the manual and the FETCHOPT discussion. I was aware of the option, but since I so rarely use PDSE, I had never studied the description in detail. I still don't really understand the PACK/NOPACK part of FETCHOPT.

This is the timing part of the program
My original thought when I started my mini project was to study CPU, but I quickly decided that was silly and just concentrated on elapsed time. Contents Management is not supposed to retain the module when doing LOAD/DELETE as shown, though PDSE might have cached the module in some fashion. Non TSO OS/360 might have held onto the module, but that "feature" was removed in MVS.

As for the Mr. stuff. I am just trying to be formally courteous.

Appreciated - but not really necessary. I'm good with whatever works for you

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