File allocation is invalid in REXX

Priyanka Pyne · New User Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 95 Location: India

Hi,

I am allocating one file using ALLOCATION DA. The file is getting created and it is copying the data from the skel and everything is fine. But it is throwing an unusal error. Do not have any clue.

Any help will appriciable.

INVALID FILE NAME. 'file name'
MISSING FILE NAME+
MISSING FILE NAME OF DATASET TO BE UNALLOCATED
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PeterHolland · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:15 pm Post subject:

With this kind of information nobody here will have any clue.

Priyanka Pyne · New User Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 95 Location: India

The error message i have given is from after doing TRACE and and I am not able to copy paste the same here as it is not allowing me to paste any picture.

expat · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:19 pm Post subject:

Why not use "FREE FI(ddname)" instead, that way youy only need to know the DD name to which you originally allocated the file to.

enrico-sorichetti

why not use a plain text cut and paste like everybody does ???

Priyanka Pyne · New User Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 95 Location: India

How I coded is like

Priyanka Pyne · New User Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 95 Location: India

and my output is

enrico-sorichetti

why not look at the manuals for the syntax of the FREE command
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/IKJ4BK90
( not the latest ones but more than enough for a silly FREE )

or why not search the forum and lurk into the novemtrigintillion snippets of rexx code that perform a FREE

but really You should NOT have had the need to ask
why not use a bit of logic and observe the <simmetry>/<similarity>/<analogy> ???

ALLOCATE uses FILE for the ddname as FILE(<ddname>)

for what reason should
FREE use FILE with a dsname