On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:23, Walt Farrell wrote: >> The only IBM-supported method to empty a PDS is to delete >> it and reallocate it. > > Not true. Delete all the members (can be done easily in batch using > supported ISPF services) and then compress it with IEBCOPY.
If you want to do it in batch, you have to wrap some code (REXX or otherwise) around the ISPF services, which is an option that was ruled out by the OP. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

