Line command to deletes datasets

avinashgup · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 6:51 pm

Hi,

I am looking for a line command that can be used to mass delete datasets from option 3.4 in ISPF.

For instance there are 300 datasets starting with the qualifier TEST10.*.*
And i need to delete all of them using a line command.

Please let me know if there is any such command.

Thanks.

Avinash

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:20 pm

TSO DELETE 'TEST10.*.*'

avinashgup · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:46 pm

This is throwing an error saying that "REENTER THIS OPERAND". I am not sure if we can use the wild card qualifier with the delete command.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:06 pm

maybe not hlq.*.* - I can not test it here because at my site, the HLQ is the same for every ds for about 100 of us.
but HLQ.MLQ.* works.

either that or you did not type properly.

superk · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:38 pm

It's documented that DELETE won't work against a single HLQ.

Seems like there's a few options:

1. Write a small CLIST or REXX exec to use ISPF Dialog Services to replicate the same process.

2. Print the dataset list to a file, edit the file and add a DELETE command in front of each dataset name, and then run that through IDCAMS.