In
<6305694861030557.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu>,
on 10/02/2013
at 10:36 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]>
said:
>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.
That will fail if another job is updating the PDS.
>>There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access.
>That is an IDCAMS command, not TSO.
DELETE is and always has been a TSO command. The fact that DELETE
calls IDCAMS does not mean that it doesn't exist.
Actually, the original TSO DELETE command was there before AMS.
>PDSE
The OP wrote "PDS"; if he meant "PDSE" then the issues are different.
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