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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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