Yeah, you're right. Thanks. I was picturing doing something where I "copied" the space allocation from the old to the new but (1) there's no need: I can hard-code the size; and (2) what I was picturing does not exist anyway: there is no such specification as SPACE=*.ddname or *.stepname.ddname. (Does it seem odd that there is not? That would be useful and not hard to have implemented, right?)
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Delete all members from PDS with symbolic in name? There a couple of programs on the CBTTAPE (cbttape.org) that can empty a PDS or PDSe. As stated, the PDS command can also be used. Using IEFBR14, you can a little simpler than what you specified. //DELETE EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DELETE DD DISP=(MOD,DELETE),SPACE=(TRK,(0)), // DSN=FOO.&FMID..LOAD //ALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //NEW DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),.................... // DSN=FOO.&FMID..LOAD Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 6:01 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
