FSVO needed. If you want the space freed when the e-mail is sent instead of waiting for the job to end, then you need SPIN=UNALLOC. If you don't care then you don't.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Dale R. Smith [dale-sm...@columbus.rr.com] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looking for clarification/guidance on SMTP DD FREE/SPIN On Mon, 18 May 2020 10:15:55 +0000, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: >> f you allocate a DD in your JCL with SYSOUT going to SMTP, and specify >> FREE=CLOSE, >> then your emails will be sent to SMTP when you close the DD in REXX, (EXECIO >> with FINIS option). >> You can use the same DD over and over as long as you don't FREE it. > >Closing it will free it. Also, you really should have SPIN=UNALLOC. > >> REUSE lets you use the same DD Name over and over. > >You don't need REUSE when you've freed the allocation. > > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 You are correct on the "Closing it will free it." I forgot that I had tried that before and it didn't work, which is why all my code does ALLOCATE/FREE. However, for a single email using a DD statement, SPIN=UNALLOC is not needed. Using FREE=CLOSE is all that is required. I submitted a test job that sends an email in the first Step with just FREE=CLOSE and the second Step was a Sleep for 10 minutes. I received the email while the job was still running. -- Dale R. Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
