As far as I know, gil, that's the way that FREEing a concatenation has always 
worked. It truly frees the first one, but merely deconcatenates the others. So, 
yes, I believe you'll need to remember them if you want to be able to truly 
free them later.

-- 
Walt

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:03:30 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:

>I've allocated a bunch of explicit and automatic DDNAMES.
>I concatenate them with BPXWDYN( 'concat ddlist(SYSEXEC,SYS00006,
>    SYS00007,SYS00008,SYS00009,SYS00010,SYS00011)' )
>
>So I see:
>
>listalc status sysnames
>     ...
> SYS14090.T135209.RA000.user.R0173005
>   SYSEXEC  DELETE,DELETE
> /mvs/user/bin
>            KEEP,KEEP
> /home/user2/bin
>            KEEP,KEEP
> user.CLIST
>            KEEP
> user.CCM-RCE.CLIST
>            KEEP
> user.CBTUNZIP
>            KEEP
> grpx.CLIST
>            KEEP
> READY
>
>Then, when I'm done:
>
>free dd(SYSEXEC)
> READY
>
>But, now:
>
>listalc status sysnames
>     ...
> /mvs/user/bin
>   SYS00006 KEEP,KEEP
> /home/user2/bin
>   SYS00007 KEEP,KEEP
> user.CLIST
>   SYS00008 KEEP
> user.CCM-RCE.CLIST
>   SYS00009 KEEP
> user.CBTUNZIP
>   SYS00010 KEEP
> grpx.CLIST
>   SYS00011 KEEP
> READY
>
>... All the concatenated DDNAMEs (except the first) come
>back! WAD, I suppose.  Must I remember all the catenand
>DDNAMES and FREE them individually?  Is there an easier way?
>
>Thanks,
>gil
>
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