On 2015-11-19 14:54, Ed Finnell wrote: > File 182 on CBT tape contains PDS command. It's a great tool. Can delete or > delete by mask add space, copy, merge and fix. The commercial version is > Startools from Serena. Has saved my bacon numerous times. > STOW DCB,,I
I believe (or hope) PDS uses that nowadays, since its older technique, basically zapping the directory, didn't work for PDSE. > In a message dated 11/19/2015 3:43:17 P.M. Central Standard Time, > johnmattson...@gmail.com writes: > > Someone was asking about deleting all members of a pds. I just noticed > that DFSort has a bunch of "samples" one of which includes how to use > ICETOOL to delete all members of a PDS. Hope this helps. Lots of other > neat things in here too. I hope it (and IDCAMS) uses STOW. Deleting members one-by-one can be expensive. But if so, first sort in reverse order. I'm not going to measure timings -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN