I originally recommended PDSCLEAN to my colleague who was doing the migration. Then realized that we don't have PDSCLEAN here; I was flashing back to my previous shop. Yes, the program works fine. But DEL (*) does too, and it's certified.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Deleting all members of a PDS You might try using INFILE and specify a DD with DISP=SHR Or got cbttape.org and download PDSCLEAN - works great for PDS and PDS/E datasets Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Deleting all members of a PDS > > While installing a new version of the PDS command-one that works on > z/OS 2.3 as previously discussed here-we need to empty existing > libraries in order to refill them with new members. Without a working > PDS command, we had to find a different way to accomplish FIXPDS RESETDIR. > > I finally remembered the relatively new DELETE pds-dsn(*), which > accomplishes the task nicely. However, like IDCAMS DELETE in general, > my testing indicates that it wants exclusive enqueue on the PDS. Not a > problem for most PDS data sets, but a link listed library must contend > with XCFAS and LLA. I know that both of those can be handled fairly > easily, but I'm curious if there's some additional keyword that will > ignore the SHR enqueues. I have not found anything. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office <===== NEW > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
