John, HBDELETE would be great if you could use a LEVEL parameter, scary, but certainly better than having to run a million lines of JCL.
David G. Schlecht | Information Technology Professional State of Nevada | Department of Administration | Enterprise IT Services T:(775)684-4328 | F: (775) 684‐4324 | E:dschle...@admin.nv.gov <-- New Address -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting old HSM backups Look up the HDELETE command for migrated data sets; HBDELETE for backup data sets. I'm at home now. I have some helper stuff at work. I'll look for some stuff tomorrow. On Feb 5, 2013 4:25 PM, "David G. Schlecht" <dschle...@admin.nv.gov> wrote: > We have been backing up millions of unnecessary datasets. I am > changing HSM to not back them up but would like a reasonably easy way > to delete the millions of backups that already exist. > > Is there anything short of generating millions of lines of JCL. Is > there any way to get HSM to delete these backups? > > David G. Schlecht | Information Technology Professional State of > Nevada | Department of Administration | Enterprise IT Services > > > ________________________________ > This communication, including any attachments, may contain > confidential information and is intended only for the individual or > entity to which it is addressed. Any review, dissemination or copying > of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is > strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original > message. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
