Mark, You have a comma after the 'programmer name' ("COMP SEARCH PARMS", in your case) which is indicating a continuation. Column 72 has nothing to do with indicating a continuation in your example. Using Col. 72 to indicate continuation was the "old" format for JCL. Now, if you end the text in a JCL statement with a comma, it implies continuation.
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