Try the DELETE USER command. If you just want to erase the filespace but
retain the authorizations granted by others, there is a KEEPAUTH
option.e
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: SFS ERASE command (directory, subdirectories, and all
files)
Having unsuccessfully searched:
- the IBM VM Download library,
- the IBMVM archives at:
http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html
(which did refer to SFSL.VMARC but which appears to have gone
missing),
- and found google amazingly helpless, I turn to the good
members of this list...
Before I go off and write a new exec, does anyone already have a
well-crafted exec to erase an SFS directory, all it's files, all its
sub-directories, and all their files?
Before beginning to write it. I'd envision syntax something
like:
cmd_name filepool:dirname.subdirname.and.so.on (QUIET
or
cmd_name dirname.subdirname.and.so.on (QUIET
both of those would require full specification down to the
lowest directory and then erase back up to and including the top
directory. It could only work as long as there were no other
subdirectories hung of any directory listed.
or
cmd_name filepool:dirname.* (QUIET
or
cmd_name dirname.* (QUIET
In this case, it would search our the lowest directory, and
erase back up to and including the top directory. A very powerful,
useful, and scary command. Caveat emptor!
If QUIET were not specified, it would issue a warning and prompt
along the lines of:
WARNING!
n directories will be erased
nn files will be erased
Continue? Reply: Yes, 1, No, or 0
It shouldn't be very hard to write, and it seems an obvious
need. So before re-inventing this particular wheel, does anyone already
have their own "wheel" that they'd care to share? We're fairly new to
SFS, so someone else has probably already dealt with this and knows the
trip-wire locations.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not
necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.
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