So in TSO HELP DELETE there are two options
MASK - The entryname is a MASK filter used to select a range of catalog
entries to be deleted.
NOMASK - the entryname is the name of a catalog entry to be deleted.
I have not worked with MASK yet, but might be worth a check out.
Or HLQ.** should work as well.
Lizette
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Schwab <[email protected]>
>Sent: Aug 14, 2015 3:18 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: .Re: Catalog Entry Deletion using a String
>
>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
>>>
>--
>Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
>Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?
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