Uncatalog a data set

Mayos · New User Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

Hello,

Can someone offer a suggestion on how to uncatalog a data set? Do I need to run a job to do uncatalog it?

Thanks.

MF_query · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 1

You can use IEFBR14 to do so.

Code:
//MYJOB JOB CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,REGION=256K,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
//UNCATG EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//STEP01 DD DSN=NEED.TOBE.UNCATALOGED,
// DISP=(MOD,UNCATLG,UNCATLG),
// UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(0))

andycool · New User Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 64

Hi,
As mentioned by MF_query, the IEFBR14 utility is normally used to delete the datasets in a job wch are to be used again. By setting the DISP ie the disposition parameter you can retain or delete or uncatlg the dataset.

DISP=(MOD,UNCATLG,UNCATLG) denotes:
1 MOD: the dataset already exists. If its to be created it ll be NEW instaed of MOD
2 UNCATLG: Uncatalog the dataset if the the job runs fine.
3 UNCATLG: Uncatalog the dataset if the the job does not run fine.
Similarly:
DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) denotes:
1 NEW: Dataset not on disk, to be created new in the further steps.
2 CATLG: Catalog it if the job runs fine.
3 DELETE: Delete it if the job does not run fine.

Thanks.

superk · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:26 pm

vinoddevkar · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 9 Location: pune

Hi,

In primary option menu,we have an option to uncatalog,otherwise we can use line level commands such as ......
_____u____ abc.sss.ccc ,this will uncatalog ur dataset.