I have installed the CBTTAPE.ORG utility PDSCLEAN for both PDS and PDSE datasets an it works very well. File 693.
Lizette -----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> >Sent: Nov 19, 2015 3:51 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Deleting all members of a pds > >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
