On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:56:09 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 09/16/2013 at 04:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>So the "free" usurps the DDNAME in use by the caller. > >The ddname is a resource associated with the allocation. What do you >expect to happen when you free a resource? I'd hardly call that a >usurpation. > >>I suppose I could use BPXWDYN 'info ...' before the second call; >>determine whether the returned DD2 was previously allocated, > >If you freed it then why would "info" tell you that it was allocated? > You didn't read my code example. Or perhaps you simply don't understand the meaning of the word "before".
>>Why does DYNALLOC do that? > >Because you told it to. > No. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
