Lizette Koehler wrote:
I think it is because the delete process with D does not understand vsam and that DEL is the DEL CLUSTER command and handles it nicely.
'D' is an ISPF line command. 'DEL' is a command unknown to ISPF and is, therefore, invoked as a TSO/E command processor with the fully qualified data set name, enclosed within apostrophes, as the one and only parameter.
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