First I want to thank all of you that responded. The gist of the responses tells me that I may be giving z/OS allocation logic too much credit. Not what I hoped for of course but this is why we do testing - right?
The cigar goes to John Kington who suggested allocating my eight data sets in a single job step. Sure enough, each of the eight data sets was allocated to different device numbers. I failed to mention the results of this test when using SMS managed volumes. SMS allocated seven of the data sets to seven different device numbers with only one device number being used for two data sets. Since the underlying reason for this testing will be for a SMS/HSM environment, maybe things won't be too bad. Again, thanks to everyone for their time and assistance. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
