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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
