How to delete number of similar PDSs

anoopn1985 · New User Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 16 Location: tvm

Hi,

I have a requirement to delete thousands of PDS's with name ANOOP.ABC*.*

Could you please help me to get some utility which can be used for this? All the datasets are migrated. I tried to use the utility PGM=ADRDSSU, but this is only for catalogged datasets and not for migrated ones.

hchinnam · New User Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 73

You can use a rexx to do it.

Is it is o.k let me know, i will write one which does the JOB.

expat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:59 pm

Found using the search utility on the forum

Click HERE to see a solution which allows all of the * ** and % wildcard characters to search in the DATASETS DD *

karthikr44 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:01 pm

hI,

Try below one,

hchinnam · New User Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 73

Expat,

I tried running the REXX and JCL you provided. My "LINKPGM" to IGGCSI00 returns code "8". Can you tell me some manuals which describes about this pgm. Something like input parameters, return codes etc..

expat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:05 pm

THIS is the link to the manual.

You need Appendix C to see the program specification and related information.

hchinnam · New User Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 73

Thanks for the manual.

anoopn1985 · New User Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 16 Location: tvm

Thanks all..
Karthik,

I have tried the option given by you. But its not working and return code is 14.SYSTSPRT message is "NO DSNAMES MATCH ANOOP.ABC*.*

But there are a number of datasets which meets the selection criteria..

expat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:32 pm

hchinnam

I think the problem may be that when this REXX was written and tested, the code for the concatenation character was an exclamation mark rather than the standard pipe symbol.

Try changing them in the REXX code

C '5A'X '4F'X ALL

Well, it was '5A'X here

hchinnam · New User Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 73

anoopn1985 · New User Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 16 Location: tvm

I don know CSI. :-(

Any other utilities

expat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:58 pm

I did research the EXCLUDE DD * part after the original post of the code and you can use a single *, for example

//EXCUDE DD *
HLQ.ABCDE*

which will exclude all datasets starting HLQ.ABCDE from processing or listing.

Unfortunately the code was as complex as the exclude processing requirement was at the time when I wrote the program. You can also use the fully qualified dsn in exclude as well as generics together.

expat · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:01 pm

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:58 pm

the dataset organization is irrelevant for a delete operation

for simple filtering an idcams delete might be enough