Deleting Records from a VSAM file

Nikhil Thayyil · New User Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Location: India

Hi Frank,
Can u provide me with further details regarding DFSORT's VSAMIO to delete the records in VSAM file.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:23 pm

See my post about that in the thread at:

ibmmainframes.com//viewtopic.php?t=5369

For complete information on any DFSORT parameter, see "z/OS Application Programming Guide". You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from:

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Nikhil Thayyil · New User Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Location: India

Thanks Frank.

Direction · New User Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

Pls tell me, How we can delete records in VSAM file through JCL.

or

Delete all records in the VSAM file through JCL.

I searched the posted messages, but didn't find the solution.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:41 am

Use the technique described in the other post with: