On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:46 AM Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote:
> <...snip> When did freepool become a requirement?<.snip..> QSAM does not free the buffer pool. The user has to issue a FREEPOOL; AFAIK, it has been that way since OS/MVT. You can get away without doing a FREEPOOL until you issue thousands of consecutive OPEN/GET/PUT/CLOSE requests without any FREEPOOLs, then you run out of virtual private storage. I hit this same issue myself a few years ago with a recursive QSAM I/O routine. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
