On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:34, Tim Hare <[email protected]> wrote:
> In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: > > "Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute > wants to "do something" with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them? > Perhaps Allocation could be "educated" to issue HDELETE iff the dataset > is migrated *AND* DISP=(,DELETE) *AND* PGM=IEFBR14." > //S1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //FILE1 DD DSN=...,DISP=(OLD,DELETE),UNIT=(,,DEFER) I believe this will delete a migrated dataset without recalling it, because IIRC the DEFER option on UNIT says, don't allocate a device for this until the dataset is opened... since IEFBR14 doesn't open the dataset, it's not allocated to a device and there's no need to recall it. YMMV... It's been a while. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
