Craig -
Tried your suggesting early on; output below.
- Ken
DELETE MY.VSAM.DATA -
NOSCRATCH -
CATALOG( -
MY.ACTIVE.USERCAT -
)
IDC2552I ENTRY TYPE IS INVALID FOR DELETE
IDC0551I ** ENTRY MY.VSAM.DATA NOT DELETED
IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE
WAS 8
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:26:12 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components
> To: [email protected]
>
> Ken,
>
> Try this if you have not:
>
>
> DELETE fully-qualified-name CATALOG(catalog-name)
>
> Example:
>
> DELETE ORPHAN.VSAM.DATA CATALOG(CATALOG.USER.VSAM)
> DELETE ORPHAN.VSAM.INDEX CATALOG(CATALOG.USER.VSAM)
>
>
>
>
>
> Craig
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Ken French <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 06/29/2012 12:26
> Subject: Re: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components
> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> Craig -
>
> Yes, I tried DELETE <entry> NOSCRATCH CLUSTER, and I get
>
>
>
> IDC3012I
> ENTRY MY.VSAM.DATA NOT FOUND+
>
> IDC0551I
> ** ENTRY MY.VSAM.DATA NOT DELETED
>
> IDC0014I
> LASTCC=8
>
> IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 - REASON
> CODE IS IGG0CLFM-6
>
> Since the object is actually an orphaned DATA component, the DELETE
> CLUSTER command is seen as invalid.
>
> - Ken
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:12:12 -0500
> > From: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components
> > To: [email protected]
> >
> > Have you tried DELETE ent NOSCRATCH CLUSTER ?
> >
> > If alternate index or path, you would need those keywords.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Ken French <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: 06/29/2012 10:54
> > Subject: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components
> > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
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