@Farley is correct; in my haste I mis-read my code. FREEPOOL *after* the CLOSE.
Also FWIW RMODE31=BUFF is incompatible with TERM=TS, if that matters to you. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Probably dumb assembler question Try FREEPOOL XDCB before the CLOSE. Or ... a DCBE with RMODE31=BUFF will both do the FREEPOOL automatically and get the buffers up above the line, where there is more storage.
