If I am not mistaken, if you allocate on an SMS-managed volume and specify enough DCB attributes so that SMS knows that it is intended to be a SAM data set, SMS will write an EOF at the beginning of the first track and correspondingly set DS1LSTAR. I seem to recall this as one of the "features" that SMS provided when it first came out.
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