It is recommended that SMPPTS spill data sets be allocated as a PDSE (DSNTYPE=LIBRARY).
If you plan to run concurrent jobs, specify DISP=SHR instead of DISP=OLD.
Do not concatenate SMPPTS spill data sets.
The first SMPPTS spill data set must be specified with a ddname of SMPPTS1, the second SMPPTS2, and so on, up to a maximum of SMPPTS99. Do not skip any ddnames in this sequence; if a spill data set is omitted, SMP/E ignores any data sets that may follow the omitted data set. (For example, if you specify only SMPPTS1 and SMPPTS3, then SMP/E uses only SMPPTS1 and ignores SMPPTS3.)
You must specify a valid data set name for an SMPPTS data set. NULLFILE and DD DUMMY are invalid for SMPPTS spill data sets.