On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 09:16:44 -0500, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: > > The system closes DCBs at end-of-task. > You and IBM are in agreement, at least insofar as this should happen; they've taken APAR OA19801 for a case where it doesn't. Interesting -- the APAR seems to say that an attempt is made to flush the buffer after the task has already terminated. This seems to leave the file at least partially open, but closed enough that I could FREE the DDNAME. I'd almost expect a program check from an attempt to manipulate previously freed resources.
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