Beesley, Paul wrote:
Hi Quick query about use of FREE=CLOSE in DFSORT JCL Some of our users have FREE=CLOSE on the SYSOUT statements in their DFSORT JCL and they have read that FREE=CLOSE is not allowed from 1.12 upwards. What actually happens if FREE=CLOSE is specified now? Is it ignored? Does the job fail? Or something else? (This customer is 1.11 currently and we will be upgrading to 1.13 shortly so they are concerned about having to make a lot of JCL changes)
My first thought when I read this was, "How on earth did we miss seeing that migration action in our reviews?" But in the z/OS V1.9 DFSORT Application Programming Guide and later editions, I see this same statement under topic 2.4, "Using DD Statements":
"2. When using DFSORT applications, FREE=CLOSE cannot be used on any DD statements except DFSPARM."
And the z/OS V2.1 JCL Reference still documents FREE=CLOSE as valid, and a quick test on a 2.1 system shows that it's still accepted.
So...what led your users think this is a new restriction? (It seems as though we might have to fix something, somewhere, but what?)
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