On 29 Aug 2013 20:39:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> >wrote: >> On 29 Aug 2013 14:33:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> >>>The z/OS V1R9 MVS JCL Reference--The 12th edition of 2007 September >>>and the oldest one I have on my workstation--describes AFF, SEP, >>>SPLIT, and SUBALLOC as "obsolete subparameters" on page 5-18. >> >> I can see SEP, SPLIT and SUBALLOC being obsolete but AFF still should >> be useful in conserving device use for tape drives. For example >> SORTIN and SORTOUT many times were allocated that way. >> >UNIT=REF=DATA.SET.NAME,LABEL=(2,SL) does work.
While I don't have a JCL manual at home, VOL=REF=data.set.name,LABEL=(n,SL) is the best way to put multiple files on the same volume (for output VOL=REF=*.stepname.procstepname.ddname works better). UNIT=AFF=ddname is for putting things on different volumes using the same device. CLark Morris > >> Clark Morris >>> >>>John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
