Bob,

It's usually simpler to specify UNIT=(3390,7) and forget the VOL parm
altogether. An explicit unit count is not ignored for SMS managed datasets.

I used to use ACC/SRS to force all DSORG=PS datasets to be allocated with a
unit count of 5 - solved my X37 nightmares big time.

Blew TIOT in a few cases, but it was worth it once we tuned those jobs.

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Cosby, Bob - OCFO
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Large Multi-Volume Physical Sequential allocation
> question
> 
> Looked in the MVS JCL User's Guide and found Parallel Mounting For some
> jobs, all requested volumes must be mounted before the data set can be
> used. For these jobs, request as many units as volumes or request parallel
> mounting by coding P in the UNIT parameter.
> 
> Now that I know about,I have used it and it works great.
> 
> //SYSLIST  DD SYSOUT=*
> //DD01     DD DSN=NFCPBEAR.B5I.EHRI.HSCU.SF50T,DISP=SHR
> //         DD DSN=NFCPBEAR.B5I.EHRI.HSCG.SF50T,DISP=SHR
> //         DD DSN=NFCPBEAR.B5I.EHRI.DJIN.SF50T,DISP=SHR
> //DD01O    DD DSN=NFCPPARA.B5I.EHRI.HS00.SF50.XMLT,
> //         DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=(3390,P),DSNTYPE=LARGE,
> //
> DCB=(NFCP.PRODMODL,DSORG=PS,RECFM=FB,LRECL=200,BLKSIZE=0),
> //         SPACE=(CYL,(4369,4369),RLSE),VOL=(,,,7)
> //DD01RL   DD DSN=NFCP.PRODSPEC,DISP=SHR
> //SYSIN    DD DSN=NFCP.PRODSPEC(FAEOPF02),DISP=SHR
> 
> I only needed for large multi-volume files.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 6:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Large Multi-Volume Physical Sequential allocation question
> 
> In <[email protected]>, on 02/07/2014
>    at 06:52 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> said:
> 
> >So according to the JCL Reference manual, the P will be ignored for
> >DASD.
> 
> No.
> 
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