PDS86 is a free version (subset) of StarTool that supports both PDS and PDS/E. You can get it from the CBT tape (http://www.cbttape.org) file 182.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Skip Robinson > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:17 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Delete all members of a PDS with JCL > > The problem with many simple delete-member processes for PDS-- > DSORG(PO)-- > is that while the result is a PDS with no members, it may not be not > truly > 'empty'. That is, the data portion of the allocation is still occupied > by > whatever content was there before member deletion. In order to finish > the > process, you need to compress the memberless PDS to reclaim the space. > > Programs like PDSCLEAR or StarTool FIX RESET render a PDS truly empty > is a > single user operation. > > PDSE behaves differently. Deleting a member makes previously occupied > space > available for the next member to be added. > > . > . > JO.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > jo.skip.robin...@sce.com > > > > carlos roberto > visconde > <cvisco...@ig.com > To > .BR> IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Sent by: IBM > cc > Mainframe > Discussion List > Subject > <ibm-m...@bama.ua Re: Delete all members of a PDS > .edu> with JCL > > > 07/07/2009 12:06 > PM > > > Please respond to > IBM Mainframe > Discussion List > <ibm-m...@bama.ua > .edu> > > > > > > > You can use iebupdte. > > 2009/7/7 Hal Merritt <hmerr...@jackhenry.com> > > > IMS came with a utility that did exactly that and I adopted the > > empty-and-repopulate process with very good results for a number of > > products. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > > Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher > > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:48 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Subject: Re: Delete all members of a PDS with JCL > > > > we have run into may situations where when we are upgrading to a new > > release of a product (say IDMS or DB2) - we warn all users that ad- > hoc > > jobs that access the runtime-loadlibs will mis-behave during the > upgrade > > additionally - many jobs have JCL included for libraries they simply > don;t > > need > > > > > > however - many dont listen and submit jobs anyhow - we chose not to > take > > the time to cancel these jobs so we can rename or delete - we just > empty > > the PDS and then re-load with the newer contents! > > > > > > > > Chris Hoelscher > > Senior IDMS & DB2 Database Administrator > > Humana Inc > > 502-476-2538 > > choelsc...@humana.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
