On 2015-11-19 14:54, Ed Finnell wrote:
> File 182 on CBT tape contains PDS command. It's a great tool. Can delete or
> delete by mask add space, copy, merge and fix. The commercial version is
> Startools from Serena. Has saved my bacon numerous times.
>
STOW DCB,,I
I believe (or hope) PDS uses that nowadays, since its older technique,
basically zapping the directory, didn't work for PDSE.
> In a message dated 11/19/2015 3:43:17 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> Someone was asking about deleting all members of a pds. I just noticed
> that DFSort has a bunch of "samples" one of which includes how to use
> ICETOOL to delete all members of a PDS. Hope this helps. Lots of other
> neat things in here too.
I hope it (and IDCAMS) uses STOW. Deleting members one-by-one can be expensive.
But if so, first sort in reverse order.
I'm not going to measure timings
-- gil
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