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

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