Thanks Lizette.
The double * must be new (within the last 25 years :-) ).
Back in the day only a single * could be used to replace a single qualifier.
It was great for GDSs (ie. HLQ.GDGBASE.*).
Dan D
-----Original Message-----
From: Lizette Koehler
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 7:27 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Subject: Re: .Re: Catalog Entry Deletion using a String
The z/OS needs to be at z/OS V1.11 or higher I think for this mask process
to work.
Lizette
-----Original Message-----
From: Lizette Koehler <[email protected]>
Sent: Aug 14, 2015 4:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: .Re: Catalog Entry Deletion using a String
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
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Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
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