On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 06:34:34 -0500, Steve Horein wrote:
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>Much better.
>While I can't help with the question of "what really happens...", it does
>seem that -something- must happen to the PDSE to allow successful deletion
>of those members. In the case of this particular NetView data set, "REACC"
I was unaware of the PERFORMPENDINGDELETE option. Nice.
Anecdotal: I'm a automation administrator, and have struggled with
NetView's DSILIST data set that is used to retain various automation table
listings/reports. IBM recommends allocating this data set as a PDSE to
avoid Sx37 ABENDs and/or the
One of the differences between PDSes and PDSEs is that PDSEs reclaim the space
of deleted members. In order for that to be done, however, the PDSE address
space needs to know that the member is no longer in use so it is safe for the
space to be reclaimed. If the space cannot be reclaimed at the
The url
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/pdse-member-pending-delete-processing-over
view indicates that when executing IEBPDSE with the
PARM='PERFORMPENDINGDELETE,NOANALYSIS'
Seems to imply that space will be released for deleted members. We do
routine maintenance on various Linklist datasets
