On 2015-07-22 13:45, John Eells wrote:
>>
>> So does IDCAMS DELETE these days (I forget when we added this). Both
>> likely use STOW INIT.
>
Syntax? That would appear to DELETE the entire library. But DELETE
followed by reallocate is certainly a valid approach. Why not?
> The guy who wrote the code (thanks, Steve!) tells me we did this in z/OS
> V1.12, so all releases that are still in service include this function, and
> there is no need to get FIXPDS or write your own code.
>
Clearly a different "Steve":
https://xkcd.com/1532/
> (STOW INIT [actually, STOW ... ,I] leaves behind an empty partitioned data
> set that need not be compressed.)
>
Is there a non-assembler interface for this? Seems a good candidate
for ISPF DSLIST.
Lately I asked here how I might coalesce data set extents (I've
been using HMIGRATE/HRECALL.) Someone said IBM supplies such a
utility now. Google is not my friend here:
https://xkcd.com/1532/
... tells me only (mostly) about DB2.
-- gil
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