You can override the expiration date or retention period, when deleting SMS-managed data sets, by coding OVRD_EXPDT(YES) in your IGDSMSxx member.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL >I may be late and missed some of the dialog on this but >Has this been mentioned. >//S005 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >//DD1 DD DSN=name.xxx,DISP=(MOD,DELETE), >// UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(0)) Yes. It failed because the dataset had a future expiry date. That was basically the content of the original post. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html