On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:36:39 -0500 Elardus Engelbrecht
<[email protected]> wrote:

:>Binyamin Dissen wrote:

:>>I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this.

:>What about STOW and DESERV DELETE?  Yes, they're macros, not commands, but I 
think you can conjure a little program to us that.

As this is all REXX, I am trying to avoid shipping a program.

:>>There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access.

:>That is an IDCAMS command, not TSO.

Nit.

:>Is requiring exclusive access a problem? As documented in "DFSMS Using Data 
Sets":

:>"A PDSE member is not actually deleted while in use. Any program connected to 
the member when the delete occurs can continue to access the member until the 
data set is closed. This is called a deferred delete."

:>Oh, BTW, all aliase of that [PDSE] member will also be deleted when you 
delete a member.

Exclusive to the dataset. It may be in use. The member will not be.

:>>There is IEHPROGM, but I would as soon just avoid it.

:>Good. What about utilities and IDCAMS?

Great. Which one will do what I want?

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