I'm very rusty (MVS/ESA) but from my POV it seems to me that you need to free each DDNAME that you concatenated, individually after decat. Unless you can simply FREE the DDNAME of the concatenation?
Rupert On Thu., Oct. 1, 2020, 18:25 Joseph Reichman, <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m running the program under test > After I do decocatenate verb 04 > With the ddname text 01 > I get a rc 0 from SVC 99 > I then go to ISPF > Do a ISRDDN > > And I have a number of files actually 100 > Each with a ddname SYS00007,SYS00008 etc. This indicates to me that > although they are decocatenated they are still allocated > > Thanks > > > > > On Oct 1, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 07:58:56 -0400 Joseph Reichman < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > :>I allocate a number of datasets the last text unit being DALCLOSE > > :>(unallocated on close) In my second step I concatenate the datasets. > At > > :>EOF I close them after wards I deconcatenate them My question is > > :>shouldn't the individual datasets be unallocated as well > > > > What happens when you, thru JCL, concat several datasets with FREE=CLOSE? > > > > -- > > Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> > > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > > > > > Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, > > you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. > > > > I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, > > especially those from irresponsible companies. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
