On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:42:10 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Christian D wrote: > >>Is there a difference in using the utility IEFBR14 and IDCAMS in deleting >>VSAM cluster Dataset ? > >Absolutely! You use IDCAMS to manage VSAM datasets. IEFBR14 just simply 'does >nothing'. >
You can define (and delete) VSAM data with JCL/IEFBR14 for about 25 years now (MVS/ESA 3.1.0e ?). http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D4A0/2.2.3 Not all IDCAMS-Options are available in JCL, but you can use temporary VSAM data sets (DSN=&&MYDSN,DISP=(,PASS)) in JCL (you can't "define" temporary data sets with IDCAMS) Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
