Thanks Your last point it something worth trying wonder if I can add text unit DALCLOSE ( free = close) to the S99VRBCC verb parameter list in addition to DALDDNAM
Thanks PS If have 4,471 files I have to process my installation limit of concatenation is about 100. I have to allocate and deallocate To read thru all of them > On Oct 1, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
