On 6/16/2011 6:21 PM, Dan D wrote:
You might want to consider calling IDCAMS to perform a DELETE.
I agree, but would like to make an observation. I've seen umpteen programs that call IDCAMS, and they all (dynamically) allocated a SYSIN and SYSPRINT (or arbitrary DD names with an override list), wrote the command to SYSIN, and read the results from SYSPRINT. Which makes me wonder whether anybody reads printed manuals any more. There is a figure showing how to use the SYSIN/SYSPRINT exit, avoiding the need for allocation and I/O), but in early versions of electronic copies the figures were omitted.
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