On 2013-08-29 14:56, John McKown wrote:
> SEP= was supposed to guarantee that the data sets were placed on SEParate
> volumes. Likely to enhance concurrent I/O overlap.
>  
This was probably most effective if yours was the only job
running in the system at that instant.

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Pommier, Rex R. wrote:
> 
>> OK, what does (did) SEP= do?  The only thing the JCL reference says is
>> that you can't use it as a JCL symbol in certain types of jobs.
>> 
Probably jobs started by operator commands, which supported
an abbreviated syntax for overrides.

So they removed the function but retained the restriction.  A
triumph of compatibility over common sense.

>> //SYSUT1 DD UNIT=(SYSDA,SEP=(SORTLIB,SYSLMOD,SYSLIN)),

-- gil

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