after I saw Gil's suggestion, I thought this was a better approach myself -
Carmen On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 16:09:35 +0000, Billy Ashton <bill00ash...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Carmen, I am going to give gil's method a try first, as it is simple >enough to keep inside a BR14, and failing that, I will go with the shell >command. Thanks for the suggestion! > >Thank you and best regards, >Billy Ashton > >------ Original Message ------ >From "Carmen Vitullo" <cvitu...@hughes.net> >To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu >Date 2/8/2022 8:29:11 AM >Subject Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file > >>On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 13:01:14 +0000, Billy Ashton <bill00ash...@gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >>>Ok, here is a followup question from a problem I ran into... >>> >>>Is there a simple command like IEFBR14 that will allow me to delete a USS >>>path if it exists, or to just skip over it if not? Right now, if I run >>>IEFBR14, and have a DD statement with a path like >>>PATH='/tmp/tempfile.txt',PATHDISP=(DELETE,DELETE) and that file does not >>>exist, I get a JCL error. >>> >>>Ideally, I should not need this, but want to ensure that this file is not >>>there when I start my processing. >>> >>>Thank you and best regards, >>>Billy Ashton >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >>use the bpxbatch program and parm='sh rm /tmp/tempfile.txt' or for MVS >>datasets that may or not exists you should use a DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE) >>correct the parms for your use, but this should work Carmen >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
