>>20.2.13 Delete a Member of a Partitioned (Non-VSAM) Data Set in a Catalog: >>Example 13 ?? ... ?? DELETE - >> EXAMPLE.NONVSAM2 - >> PURGE - >> CATALOG(USERCAT4) >> >> The [second] DELETE command deletes all remaining members and then >> the partitioned non-VSAM data set, EXAMPLE.NONVSAM2, itself...
Haha, the truth is, this will delete the whole dataset (PDS or not) -- Gone -- No need to "delete" members! Roger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 6:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Does IDCAMS really do that? In: Title: z/OS V1R12.0 DFSMS AMS for Catalogs Document Number: SC26-7394-11 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2i290/20.2.13 I read: 20.2.13 Delete a Member of a Partitioned (Non-VSAM) Data Set in a Catalog: Example 13 ... DELETE - EXAMPLE.NONVSAM2 - PURGE - CATALOG(USERCAT4) The [second] DELETE command deletes all remaining members and then the partitioned non-VSAM data set, EXAMPLE.NONVSAM2, itself... That seems terribly wasteful to me. Why delete all the members first? Wouldn't it suffice to delete "the partitioned non-VSAM data set [] itself." The members won't be there after that, will they? Ghosts? Who you gonna call? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
