You can also use DFDSS DUMP with the wild carding and the DELETE option with a dummied output. I like this because you can run it with PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' to have a 'practice' run to see what it will actually delete.
You can also use this to make a backup of the 'to be deleted' files. C. Todd Burrell Senior z/OS Systems Programmer ITSO (404) 498-3299 (404) 723-2017 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Knutson, Sam Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Generic delete Hi Mark, You and everyone else would find it useful to have Gilbert's excellent XDELETE REXX exec handy. The XDELETE command scans the catalog for data set names that match a filter (such as USERID.*.C%K*.**) then issues a DELETE command for each disk data set or a DELETE NOSCRATCH for each tape data set. You will find it in file 183 on the CBT MVS Utilities collection here http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT183.zip http://www.cbttape.org or at his Home Page here http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gsf/tools/ XDELETE uses the IBM Catalog Search Interface (CSI) to let you delete many data sets easily using masks and to preview the results before actually doing it by omitting a confirmation keyword. I use it in both TSO foreground and batch. Best Regards, Sam Knutson -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Generic delete Is there a way to do a generic delete of datasets? Say I want to remove a user from my systems and I want to delete all of his/her datasets. Is there a way to do that in a JCL or REXX rather than manually? example joesmith.** Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 888.221.9862 http://www.mainline.com ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
