IMSTAT Procedure

FREE Statement

The FREE statement is used to release resources from STORE statements or SAVE= options. If you save a result table (one table or sets of tables) with the SAVE= option in any of the analytic statements of the IMSTAT procedure, then you can release the resources with the FREE statement. Once a table has been freed, you can reuse the table name. While a saved table exists, you cannot create a table by the same name.

Syntax

FREE table-list;
FREE _ALL_;
FREE TABLE=one-table;
FREE MACRO=macro-variable-name;

FREE Statement Options

table-list

specifies a list of tables to release.

_ALL_

specifies to release the resources for all the tables that were saved throughout the procedure execution.

TABLE=one-table

specifies the name of the table to release.

MACRO=macro-variable-name

specifies the name of a macro variable to release.