Just to be clear. When a DCBE with RMODE31 specified, QSAM does free the buffers at CLOSE. This has only been available for maybe 20-30 years.
It's so hard to keep up with changing technology. sas On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 8:18 AM Mike Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- sas
