In ISPF 3.4 when you enter the VSAM name, then, the VSAM filenames are displayed, you should be able to do a "del / nos" and you may need to do this to the data & index components; but you need Storage admin privileges to do this; if you dont, contact your storage person.
You will not be able to merge these invalid entries into a new catalog. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken French Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components I have several VSAM data components in one of my USERCATs that are cataloged to volumes that no longer exist. I've searched extensively on how this might be done, and have tried several variations of the IDCAMS DELETE command without success, including DELETE <entry> NOSCRATCH, DELETE <entry> TRUENAME. I even attempted to REPRO MERGECAT the orphaned entries to a new, temporary USERCAT that I planned to simply delete if the MERGECAT was successful. Any ideas on how to eliminate these undesired and orphaned catalog entries? Keep in mind that the volumes these entries are pointing to do not exist on my system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
