I've been using DSNTYPE of LIBRARY for quite a while.  Look at the SMS option 
on the DDDEF definition panel.

Matthew

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 20:34:42 +0000, rpinion865 <rpinion...@protonmail.com> wrote:

>Has anyone tried setting DSNTYPE=LIBRARY for SMPWRK6? I'm doing a z/OS 2.4
>cumulative maintenance install. Our temporary dataset allocations are SMS, and 
>the volumes are 3390-9. I had set SMPWRK6 to CYL(3500,250,5000). But, my job 
>kept abending with an E37 on SMPWRK6. In desperation, I allocated a permanent 
>dataset with DSNTYPE=LIBRARY, and put a DD statement in my APPLY that pointed 
>to it.
>
>Not only did the E37 go away, but my job ran much, much faster. I was curious 
>if anyone
>else has experimented with this? To me, it appears that DSNTYPE=LIBRARY could 
>speedup APPLY processing.

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