Gil is correct == the FREE=CLOSE does the real dirty work

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Subject: Re: What Happens with Duplicate DD Cards in JCL?

On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:08:47 -0500, John McKown wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> > CLOSE will cause that DD to be ... taken out of the TIOT
>>
>> I didn't know that!
>
>I guess that I should have said "effectively taken out of the TIOT". I 
>don't think that the TIOT is "compressed", but that the entry is either 
>"zeroed out" or somehow marked as "inactive". But I don't really 
>remember which it is. It's been too long.
> 
But I believe an essential part, that got trimmed, is FREE=CLOSE.

-- gil

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