Delete PDS members without deleting dataset itself

jaydeb · New User Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Pune

I want to delete the members of a PDS dataset without deleting the dataset itself. Here, I don't know the exact number of members the PDS dataset is having, may be 100 or more.
How to write a job to delete these members of the PDS.

Thanks & Regards,
Jaydeb

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:47 pm

Do You want to delete all the members or selectively ??

there are tools available to "empty/reset" the directory of a PDS/PDSE

the members You want to delete have some common patterns..

for example delete members starting_with or containing some string

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:53 pm

if it is one time task You can

go to ispf option 3.4
list Your dataset
choose the option m

on the command line issue the command

s * d

to delete all the members ( You can in the next panel turn confirm off )

or for a pattern

s aa* d

same as before

after deletion it would be better to compress te dataset if PDS

superk · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:54 pm

Here's a couple of previous topics that may be relevant:

ibmmainframes.com/about6047.html
ibmmainframes.com/about16738.html

jaydeb · New User Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Pune

Hi All,

Thanks all for your help. I found ispf option 3.4 option more convenient.
Anyway, Thanks again to you all.

Thanks & Regards,
Jaydeb

Priya_1985 · New User Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Hyderabad

Hi all

u hav a option S * d,for deleting selectively members..is there any command to delete the PDS selectively at a time.

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:03 pm

Hello,

expat · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:51 pm

Using REXX you can list the PDS members and then delete them one by one.

There are numerous examples of using REXX to list a PDS on this forum, and all you need to do is to invoke IDCAMS in the REXX to delete them.