Does anyone happen to know the QNAME that is used by IDCAMS for member deletion when using the FILE parameter on the DELETE statement? Is it SYSZOPEN? I read through z/OS 1.6 DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs manual, but I don't see any indication of what is happening under the covers. In fact, I don't even see any reference to using the FILE parameter in the section on using DELETE either (which seemed odd to me...I could be blind though).
The reason I am asking is because I would like to be able to serialize the member update/deletion of a PDS through standard IBM utilities instead of going the Assembler route (use IEBUPDTE for ADD/Replace and IDCAMS to delete). The QNAME SYSZOPEN is rumored to be used for the IBM Utilities as of DFP 2.3 (didn't see any specifics in DFSMSdfp's Diagnosis manual either). If IEBUPDTE is using SYSZOPEN to create/update members within a PDS and IDCAMS is using SYSZOPEN as an exclusive Enqueue for member deletion, then serialization of the PDS is ensured. Or is all of this overkill? On the flip side of the coin, is the Assembler solution still the only way to retain integrity of the PDS structure? And yet a third question, does anyone else use other standard utilities in order to perform the update/deletion of members for a PDS? Thank you in advance for your guidance and assistance. Hank Medler My apologies if I missed something obvious when RTFM'ing and searching the archives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
