I think Cliff is on to it. A portion of the BCS entry is the only thing left and it would likely be the TRUENAME element.
Frank. GSG Systems -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Clifford McNeill Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components Ken, Have you tried IDCAMS DELETE TRUENAME? //DELET12 JOB ... //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSIN DD * DELETE - K101.AIX.DATA TRUENAME - CATALOG(USERCAT4) /* Cliff McNeill > > 1) Orphaned DATA component entry exists in an active USERCAT > 2) Cluster entry for the orphaned DATA component doesn't exist > 3) Volume pointed to by the orphaned DATA component doesn't exist, so > the DATA component does not physically exist > 4) USERCAT containing the DATA component entry exists and is in active > use > > Below is what I see for the data set within ISMF. Delete command > issued from ISMF doesn't work because this is a DATA component rather than a > CLUSTER entry (delete attempt from ISMF returns message: VSAM component name > invalid for DELETE - only cluster name is valid). > > DELETE VVR wouldn't seem to work in this case, because there is no VVDS > available, since the volume pointed to by the catalog entry doesn't actually > exist. > > I have RACF READ access to STGADMIN.IGG.DLVVRNVR.NOCAT > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
