In a recent note, Thomas Conley said:
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:04:28 -0500
>
> > I have dug high and low and have not been able to find a way to empty a
> > PDS that meets the following requirements:
> > 1) Executes in batch
> > 2) Provided and ***supported*** by IBM (not CBT, not DIY rexx code, not
> > requiring SAS/PDSMAN/PDSFAST/etc...)
> >
> > Am I missing something totally obvious? If so, how is it done?
> > If there is in fact no such capability, can anyone explain why on Earth
> > that might be?
> > Would it be that hard to add the capability to IEBCOPY say?
> >
> The only IBM-supported method to empty a PDS is to delete it and reallocate
> it.
>
This was answered here a couple years ago for PDSE:
Linkname: Re: BATCH Rename/delete PDS members w/STANDARD IBM utilities ONLY
URL:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0405&L=ibm-main&D=1&O=D&I=1&P=122715
The I (Init) option of STOW resets a PDSE to an empty status, but for some
reason, it does not work when the PDSE is allocated with DISP=SHR.
IIRC, the thread devolved to state that I has been retrofitted to old-fashioned
PDS.
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