I'm not sure about the success, did you try a repro mergecat of that VSAM data set to the usercatalog where the alias points to? Hermann
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Peter Ten Eyck Gesendet: Montag, 1. Dezember 2008 14:40 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: VSAM delete issue To answer a few questions... This is a VSAM dataset on disk. B90311 is the volser of an SMS volume. The 3.4 screen is the ISPF option P.3.4 data set list utility in our shop. I am not sure how the =3.4 lookup works when the master catalog has an alias and a dataset that would qualify to use the alias is cataloged in the master. Apparently it lists the dataset cataloged in the master. In my original post you will see that I have used the catalog parameter on my IDCAMS DELETE. I am still trying to figure out how to delete this dataset without deleting my alias. Any help work be great, thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
