Quick JDBCR4 questions

I probably shouldn't be given coffee breaks; it takes too long to retrain me afterwards:

I have a ResultSetMetaData on a Connection, and I'm keeping it in a static, module-level variable, in my interface program that calls the JDBCR4 service program.

Scott's JDBC_GetMetaData function in JDBCR4 looks like:

jdbc_begin_object_group(50);
monitor;
temp = getMetaData( rs );
jdbc_end_object_group(temp: rsmd);
on-error;
jdbc_end_object_group();
return *NULL;
endmon;
return rsmd;

I think I'm finding the answers for myself, just by framing the questions, but

(1) the object group takes care of allocation and deallocation, so I don't have to deallocate anything manually, do I?

(2) And since I'm putting what Scott's JDBC_GetMetaData in a static variable, I can continue to access it so long as my interface program remains active, right?

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JHHL
(Back from a 2-week vacation, and forgetting a lot of what I was just working on 2 weeks ago!)