In <[email protected]>, on 02/23/2015
at 03:00 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>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
You have an asterisk as an index level in the dsname.
>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:
The asterisk is a wildcard, not a reference to a symbol. You're
specifying a dsn mask, a member and a file; you should have only the
member and the file.
Alternatively, you could run under a batch TMP, but that seems like
overkill in this case.
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