On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:30:47 -0500, gsg wrote:

>How do you delete a dataset that has a invalid dataset name?  I have one
>with a 2lq that has 9 characters?  Don't ask me how it got there.
>
JCL, surrounded by apostrophes; specify UNIT and VOL (presumably it's
not catalogued).

This touches on the recent thread about prevalidation.  No prevalidation
should be performed on an existing data set name lest it have been
created by some rogue process and prevalidation might frustrate an
attempt to delete it.

-- gil

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