On 2015-07-22 14:46, John Eells wrote: > > The syntax is pretty clearly documented in Access Method Services... > It is. I was mostly commenting on your brevity.
> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2i2a1/20.1.1?SHELF=all13be9&DT=20120126090739&CASE= > > Says: "If you are deleting a member of a non-VSAM partitioned data set, the > entryname must be specified in the format: pdsname(membername). If you > specify the entryname in the format of a partition data set, pdsname(*), the > command deletes all the members in the partition data set." > Ooooh! But what if you have a member named "*"? Easy enough to do with standard IBM utilities and documented options nowadays: z/OS V2 R1 BINDER 15:12:43 WEDNESDAY JULY 22, 2015 BATCH EMULATOR JOB(MIXPROG ) STEP(STEP2 ) PGM= IEWL IEW2278I B352 INVOCATION PARAMETERS - CASE=MIXED IEW2322I 1220 1 INCLUDE -ATTR,SYSLIB(IEBGENER) IEW2322I 1220 2 NAME *(R) ... SAVE OPERATION SUMMARY: MEMBER NAME * LOAD LIBRARY &SYSUID..TEMP.MIXLIB PROGRAM TYPE LOAD MODULE VOLUME SERIAL TSO007 MAX BLOCK 32760 DISPOSITION ADDED NEW TIME OF SAVE 15.12.44 JUL 22, 2015 (I know: "Don't do that!" I'm just wearing my Black Team cape today. Hmmm... Entering D as a line command in a member list deletes only member "*"; entering "DEL /(*)" on the DS list deletes "*" and all other members. Is there any way to specify I want literal member "*", not the wildcard? Is there any way to specify that I want exactly those members that begin with "a" (yes, lower case)?) >> https://xkcd.com/1532/ >> ... tells me only (mostly) about DB2. > Oops! I meant (I hope): https://www.google.com/search?q=coalesce+site%3Aibm.com > I must confess that I see no connection between that xkcd cartoon and DB2. > You're right. This comes closer: https://xkcd.com/327/ >But maybe this will help? >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2u2b1/2.3.5.1?SHELF=all13be9&DT=20120113165441&CASE= > Wow! Other contributors here have told me that since I'm not a storage administrator, I should *never* use ADRDSSU. I think I see why. But I believe also that I see some elitism. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
