How to delete lines from a file using Rexx without ISREDIT

cma rajith · New User Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: India

Hi,

My requirement is at the end of my Rexx program, to delete the records from the file which i created during the execution of program.I cannot use ISREDIT as I don't want to show this file to the user.

The file has to be empty for the next run of the program, I can't delete the file due to some constraints in the requirement. Can anyone please guide me?

Thanks,
Ceema

prino · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:50 pm

Your requirements are clear as mud.

Please tell us what you really want to do? In what environment (fore- or background) does your REXX exec run? Which user cannot see what and why not?

Aaru · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:23 pm

Hi,

I think your requirement is to delete all the records from the files which were created while executing the REXX exec.

If yes, you can add one step each for the files that you had created in the exec.

expat · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:23 pm

Why do you assume that by using ISREDIT that you will expose the file to the user

ofer71 · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:36 pm

You can invoke IDCAMS REPRO from within REXX. Copy the file to itself with COUNT(0).

O.

Marso · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:12 pm

cma rajith · New User Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: India

Thanks a lot to All..

I have used REPRO and it fullfills my requirement..