On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:05:34 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Binyamin Dissen wrote: > >>As this is all REXX, I am trying to avoid shipping a program. > >Ah, now I understand. You can write a little REXX program. I was ready to post >it here, but you don't want a program > >>:>Good. What about utilities and IDCAMS? >>Great. Which one will do what I want? > >Why not use this? This is as native you want. > >//DSN EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 >//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* >//SYSTSIN DD * > PROF NOPREF > DELETE <dsn>(<member>) > The OP said he was concerned about the exclusive ENQ.
Then Mark Z. suggested that preallocating the data set SHR avoids the exclusive ENQ. Is that safe? IDCAMS must have some motivation for issuing the ENQ exclusive. But I understand that later releases of z/OS protect the directory better. Perhaps IDCAMS just hasn't caught up. Then the OP said he wasn't concerned about concurrent EDITs (but he said notning about concurrent reads or updates by other means, such as IEBGENER.) I think I'm confused. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
