At 12:49 -0500 on 03/25/2013, Ducky duke wrote about Dataset DELETE
question : IEBFR14 vs IDCAMS:
Hi all,
I have some temporary files not deleted. Seen with 3.4 with volume
given. When i tried to delete them , i had an error message (entry
not found)
Listcat gave this :
LISTCAT ENTRIES(SYS12048.T104505.RA000.IBMUSER.R0100008)
IDC3012I ENTRY SYS12048.T104505.RA000.IBMUSER.R0100008 NOT FOUND
IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLEG-42
IDC1566I ** SYS12048.T104505.RA000.IBMUSER.R0100008 NOT LISTED
Tried with IDCAMS DELETE :
//STEP010 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//DD01 DD DSN=SYS12048.T104505.RA000.IBMUSER.R0100008,
// DISP=OLD,VOL=SER=WORK01,UNIT=3390
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *,DCB=BLKSIZE=9040
DELETE FILE(DD01) NONVSAM PURGE
IKJ56228I DATA SET FILE NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED
IDC0548I ** MEMBER DD01 NOT DELETED
IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 8
IDC0002I IDCAMS PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 8
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Now , a colleague asked me to delete with IEBFR14 :
//DELETE EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//Duc DD DSN=SYS12048.T104505.RA000.IBMUSER.R0100008,
// DISP=(OLD,DELETE),SPACE=(TRK,(0,0)),VOL=SER=WORK01,UNIT=3390
This worked !!!
But when i asked him to explain me how does this worked and not
IDCAMS , he could not give me the reason.
Can you please tell me ?
Thank you for your explanation.
Duc
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IDCAMS failed since it expects to find the dataset in a catalog
(which it was not). See the error message. IDCAMS does not support
deletion of an uncataloged dataset. DELETE is a Catalog management
command (which can optionally delete a NonVSAM dataset as part of the
unCatalog.
The IEFBR14 worked since it was able to locate the dataset (since you
supplied UNIT and VOLSET).
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