On 2013-10-23, at 09:04, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote:
> CROSS POSTED to ISPF-L and IBM-MAIN
>
> LMFREE doesn't have any extra parameters. I keep getting a message about
> "ALREADY IN USE, TRY LATER+", "DATA SET IS ALLOCATED TO ANOTHER JOB OR
> USER". GRS shows I'm doing this to myself. This is my LMCOPY EXEC:
>
> ALLOC FI(LMIN) DA('file1') OLD REUSE
> ALLOC FI(LMOUT) DA('file2') OLD REUSE
> Address ISPEXEC
> LMINIT DATAID(INDD) DNAME(LMIN) ENQ(SHRW)
> LMINT DATAID(OUTDD) DDNAME(LMOUT) ENQ(SHRW)
> LMCOPY FROMID('INDD') TODATAID('OUTDD') FROMMEM(mema) TOMEM(mema) REPLACE
> LMFREE DATAID('INDD')
> LMFREE DATAID('OUTDD')
>
> The LMFREE does not generate an error. I get no errors running the EXEC
> and it does what I want. Except it's doesn't free my dataset.
>
> I added: Address TSO FREE FI(INDD OUTDD). It generated an error "FILE
> INDD NOT FREED, IS NOT ALLOCATED".
>
> Q). Do I need to OPEN and CLOSE to do an LMFREE correctly?
>
o I believe that ISPF LM services are designed to do their own
ENQueues; it is sufficient to ALLOCATE SHR.
o To undo the ALLOCATE, you need do ADDRESS TSO FREE ... after each
LMFREE.
-- gil
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