In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:14:56 -0800 > > My thinking now is that the note in the manual is simply superfluous. Of > course FREE=CLOSE only frees up that one allocation, not every allocation in > every step. At most the note should say something like what I just said in > the previous sentence. > Peraps the manual is oversimplifying.
I believe that technically only the active step can have any allocations, so there are no allocations to FREE in any other step. Meanwhile the initiator holds any ENQs, at least for DD statements in JCL. So I suspect that there's some communication such as Allocation tells initiator, "Hey, I just FREEd dsname SUCH.AND.SUCH, so you can DEQ it!" But initiator looks around and thinks, "No, I can't because it's used elsewhere in JCL." Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate that. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
