For decades MVS has honored the concept of public, Storage and private DASD. Numerous SHARE papers on how to configure DASD subsystems in order to reduce contention and optimize thruput. WSC under Ray Wicks produced many of them. One of my favorites was the 'The Big Pitcher'. Properly administered SMS can enhance the basic concepts and augment them with storage overflow. If we had more info on the problem better suggestions could be provided. One of the old tricks was to preallocate sortwks and pass them thru the life of the job. No need to worry about vol=ref In a message dated 10/3/2017 12:57:45 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
As others have stated, just like Named datasets. Just goes away at step or job end depending on the JCL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
