IDCAMS to delete VSAM cluster

kugan · New User Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

Hi,

i need to delete nearly 2500 vsam dataset's
the naming convention is like...

DATA.D17.P010.%%%%.CLUSTER
DATA.D17.P010.%%%%.DATA
DATA.D17.P010.%%%%.INDEX

i used IDCAMS to and my JCL goes like this

//STEP10 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *

DELETE DATA.D17.P010.* CLUSTER PURGE

IF MAXCC LE 08 THEN SET MAXCC = 0
/*

it's ending with RC = 12

but when i used

DELETE DATA.D17.P010.*.CLUSTER CLUSTER PURGE

it works fine why?
Any other way to solve this problem?

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:38 pm

What problem, is it deleting all the DATA.D17.P010.*.CLUSTERs?

kugan · New User Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

yes, and why it is not working when i used
DELETE DATA.D17.P010.* CLUSTER PURGE

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:55 pm

I'd guess that after deleting the first cluster and its associated data and index components the next thing in the list was that first cluster's data component, which is not a cluster and already gone........

kugan · New User Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

no,
what i asked is this?
In IDCAMS
when i use 'DATA.D17.P010.*' it is not working
but when i used 'DATA.D17.P010.* .CLUSTER' as my dataset name it works fine.
why?

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:53 pm

expat · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:17 pm

I think you will find that the * as a wildcard in IDCAMS will only cover one dataset component.

Try, ABC.*.*

zos5415 · New User Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 18 Location: China

when i use the