Location in the JCL

Place all /*SETUP statements after the JOB statement and before the first EXEC statement.

To prevent JES2 from requesting mounting of volumes on a node other than the node of execution, the /*SETUP statement should follow any /*ROUTE XEQ or /*XEQ statement. If JES2 processes the /*SETUP statement before processing a /*ROUTE XEQ or /*XEQ statement, JES2 requests the setup on both the input and execution nodes.