Use the CLOSFILE statement to close a QSAM file that has been previously opened by an OPENFILE statement. Only one file can be closed with each CLOSFILE statement.

>>-+--------+--CLOSFILE--+-file_name---------------+-----------><
   '-label:-'            '-&symbolic_variable_name-'   

label

A name the CLIST can reference in a GOTO statement to branch to this CLOSFILE statement. label is one-to-31 alphanumeric characters, beginning with an alphabetic character.

file_name | symbolic_variable_name

file_name

is the file name (ddname) assigned to the file (data set) when it was allocated in the current session.

symbolic_variable_name

is the symbolic variable to which you assigned file_name.