Month: April 2013

If you come across the need to delete a specific member of a Partitioned dataset and you want to do it via batch job, then you can use IDCAMS for the effect: //DELETE EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * DELETE USER1.PDS.EXAMPLE(MEMBER1)   In the above example member MEMBER1 […]

Here’s a simple way of deleting all members of a partitioned dataset via a batch job: //DELETE   EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN    DD * DELETE  USER1.PDS.EXAMPLE(*)   In the above example all the members (represented by the *) of the dataset USER1.PDS.EXAMPLE will be deleted.