On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:14 AM Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote:
> I am happy there is no command to deallocate a dataset behind the back of > the application that enqueued it. > Jikes. > > Kees. > > I can envision writing an APF authorized program which could scheduled an SRB in to a specified address space which would the do a DYNALLOC operation to deallocate a DD name in that address space. But to the best of my knowledge (poor in this case) the deallocation will fail if the DD is "opened". And if not open, yanking an allocation out from under a program is a very good way to cause an outage, or even worse a silent failure. One thing that I sometimes do is include a FREE=CLOSE on a DD if I am certain that the application will only read if once, say at start up, for configuration information. -- I just burned 2000 calories! That's the last time I'll nap with brownies in the oven. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
