Obviously you are welcome to try anything, but please be aware that almost none of the recommendations that have been posted are things that are in any way supported and they could have unknowable effects on your system.
There is no approach that will let you safely delete a data set that is in the IPL-time LNKLST. The ENQs for LLA and XCFAS are for the system's protection. If you bypass them or override them you are doing so at your own risk. The system does not support renaming a LNKLST data set that is in use. The system does not support deleting a LNKLST data set that is in use. You can use dynamic LNKLST facilities to create a new LNKLST that has a copy of the data set with a different name. You can use the unknowably risky LNKLST update operation to get users off of the old LNKLST. After purging and restarting LLA, no one will still have an ENQ on the data set and you can delete it, if it is not a PDSE that was in the IPL-time LNKLST (as of z/OS 1.8 that particular restriction goes away). But you might have compromised your system in doing the UPDATE operation. There is no way of knowing. It might well have don no harm; It might well have done harm. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
