Am I correct in assuming that does not mean what it says; that what it
should say is something like "Coding FREE=CLOSE has no effect except when it
is coded in the last jobstep that refers to the dataset"?
No effect? FREE=CLOSE deallocates the dataset; if on tape, it frees the
tape drive. It may not DEQ the dataset.
I am actually interested in using SVC 99 allocate with the FREE text unit
(whose documentation refers in turn to the restriction above). Am I correct
in assuming that (barring some other allocation of the dataset) that coding
this text unit will cause the dataset ENQ to be released when the dataset is
closed?
If you had no other ENQ for the same dataset name in the job, then the
ENQ will be released when the FREE=CLOSE is executed
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