On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:35:58 -0700, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps waking the horse. The one function available directly using >ADRDSSU not available via other utilities that might be useful in an >application context is deleting dataset via using wildcard selection. > IDCAMS will only do one level. ADRDSSU COPY Dsname(s) to a DUMMY file >with the DELETE operand allows full flexibility. > Watch this space... >From the z/OS 1.11 announcement: The IDCAMS DELETE command can be used to delete multiple entries by using a wildcard character as part of the entry name. In z/OS V1.11, IDCAMS will be designed to provide more-selective criteria on the DELETE command. A new MASK keyword will be intended to allow you to specify data set name selection criteria using a mask entry-name, or key filter, with the new keyword. I personally don't agree with "locking up" DFSMSdss, but it doesn't help that IBM documents it as a utility for "system programmers and storage administrators". -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
