I remember doing pretty much the same thing. We had a command/program to do the dirty deed. Thought I remembered that that method stopped working with the advent of indexed VTOC...
. . . 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 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to delete a broken catalog On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:45 PM, J O Skip Robinson <[email protected] > wrote: > Without delving into the saga of how we got here, a week ago a whole > bunch of ICF catalogs turned up missing their index component > cat-name.CATINDEX. > We recovered most of them. One is still broken, but there is nothing > of value there. I just want it to go away. Rather than beg the storage > folks to recover it just for deletion, I'd like to just expunge. But > when I try DEL cat-name on the BCS, I get > > IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 14 - REASON CODE IS > IGG0CLFK-0 > > This message kindly tells me that the catalog is broken, specifically > missing a 'required cell'. No kidding. Anyone know a heavy handed > method to just smash it to smithereens? > My heavy handed method from the dark past was to zap the VTOC to change the DSORG to PS and then delete it with IEHPROGM. Today, I would use DEL NVR after the ZAP instead of IEHPROGM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
