The PDS command can handle this task very nicely. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Delete all members from PDS with symbolic in name? I'm trying to do the following and I know it does not work because IDCAMS says IDC2559I MEMBER CAN NOT BE SPECIFIED WITH A GENERIC NAME But is there a way to do something like this, without restricting the job to V2R1 and symbols in SYSIN? I want to delete all members of a PDS where the PDS is named with a JCL symbol: //DELETMEM EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //OUTLOAD DD DISP=(OLD,KEEP),DSN=FOO.&FMID..LOAD //SYSIN DD * DELETE FOO.*.LOAD(*) NONVSAM FILE(OUTLOAD) /* I suppose I could do something with IEFBR14 and allocate a new dataset with a temporary name in one step and then delete the old dataset and rename the new one in the next step. Is there something easier? Thanks, Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
