Spool partitioning and spool recovery
Most JES3 installations can benefit from using several spool partitions. If used properly, spool partitioning can provide many advantages. However, if these advantages do not apply to your installation, one spool partition will serve as well. The major advantages to using spool partitions are:
If a spool data set fails, the failure affects only a subset of the jobs in the JES3 complex. That is, the failure affects only those jobs that have data in the spool partition including the failed spool data set, not ...

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