Can also be accomplished with PDS[85] command or StarTool product. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected]
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Deleting all members of a pds 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
