Deleting multiple tapes using wild cards

Swati Surana · New User Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 7 Location: India

Hi ,
I want to delete multiple tapes using wild cards as -
abcd.defg.*

I know how to delete a single tape , but not able to do for multiple tapes using wild cards.

Can anybody please help me in this.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:29 pm

You might want to delete datasets... not tapes

for tape dataset the most You can do is uncatalog them,
for tape related issues it would be wiser to speak to Your storage support group

Swati Surana · New User Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 7 Location: India

I use the following code to delete a tape dataset... but i cant use wildcards in this.i have to list out all the names, which is quite troblesome when we have large number of tapes.

//PS000001 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSDBOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//IDCUT1 DD UNIT=SYSDA,
// SPACE=(CYL,(10,10))
//IDCUT2 DD UNIT=SYSDA,
// SPACE=(CYL,(10,10))
//SYSIN DD *
DELETE QITD.JSSBSA.BACK#BCB NONVSAM PURGE
/*

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:45 pm

please start using the right terminology,
to have a better understanding of what You are doing
and let people give the right answers and advice

again You are not deleteing the dataset, Your are just deleting their catalog entries..
which means uncatalog..

if You had looked at the manual You would have seen that idcams supports generic delete
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT1I211/20.1.1?SHELF=DGT1BK33&DT=20001016161533&CASE=

to avoid useless allocations, the IDCUTx DD's are needed only when building alternate indexes

Swati Surana · New User Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 7 Location: India

I am sorry for using wrong terms .. But is there any way i can uncatalogue multiple tapes using wild cards

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:04 pm

the link was to the page with the info You requested