Correct. HLQ.** (two asterisks) covers 0-22 levels of qualifiers. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:05 PM, DanD <[email protected]> wrote: > Is my head back in the 70's? > > It used to be that "DELETE HLQ.*" would only delete the single level after > HLQ. If the DSN was HLQ.ONE.TWO it would NOT be deleted. > I couldn't see anything in "H DELETE" under TSO to explain how it handles > generics. > > Dan D > > -----Original Message----- From: Lizette Koehler > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:14 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > Subject: Re: Catalog Entry Deletion using a String > > Yes. As others stated, look at the HELP DELETE under TSO. > > I always back up what I am going to delete just in-case there is something > in there I want to keep. > > You can also use DFDSS to DUMP DELETE as well. > > Lizette > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Peter >> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 8:20 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Catalog Entry Deletion using a String >> >> Hello All, >> >> Is it possible to delete a catalog entry using a first HLQ alone ? >> >> Like deleting all entry of ZOS21.** instead of specifying each and every >> qualified dataset ? >> >> Peter >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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