Well, one answer would be that it is step 5 of a 14-step batch job. Another answer would be "because I don't have a Solaris system, know nothing about them, and have my plate full already of stuff that I AM supposed to be learning and that is of more interest to me." <g>
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Delete all members from PDS with symbolic in name? On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:00:52 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >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: > > DELETE FOO.*.LOAD(*) NONVSAM FILE(OUTLOAD) > Well, since most of the PDSes I care about are NFS automounted to Solaris systems, I'd do: rm /mvsmount/foo/*.load/* ... wondering the while why programmers torture themselves by restricting themselves to Legacy MVS constructs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
