On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:44 PM Billy Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have a sample of Bpxbatch commands to delete a z/OS flat file, > and then to allocate it anew? I am trying to work out some processing, and > this would be in the middle of a set of commands. I would hate to break > this up into three job steps, just to insert the delete/allocate in the > middle (I am using the file earlier in the script). > If I am understanding you, you basically want a way to delete & allocate a z/OS "flat file" (physical sequential) in a /bin/sh shell script. I am assuming you want a "regular" script, and not a REXX script. I did this on a UNIX shell prompt, via ssh. $ file /bin/tso /bin/tso: z/OS Unix executable (amode=31) $ tso "del 'junk'" del 'junk' IDC3012I ENTRY JUNK NOT FOUND+ IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLEG-42 IDC0551I ** ENTRY JUNK NOT DELETED IDC0014I LASTCC=8 RC(8) $ tso 'alloc ddn(x) dsn(junk.junk) lrecl(80) blksize(0) space(10,2) cyl recfm(f b) new catalog' alloc ddn(x) dsn(junk.junk) lrecl(80) blksize(0) space(10,2) cyl recfm(f b) new catalog $ tso 'del junk.junk' del junk.junk IDC0550I ENTRY (A) TSH009.JUNK.JUNK DELETED > > Thank you all! > Billy > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
