Through Automatic Class Selection (ACS) routines, SMS assigns classes to data based on its requirements and attributes and select specific storage groups to store the data. In order to do this, SMS (Storage Management System) uses classes and groups that are associated or assigned to data sets, objects and volumes. […]
The easiest way to check the RACF Template level and the Dynamic Parse version is via the RACF Operator command SET LIST. RACF operator commands are issued using the RACF subsystem prefix followed by the operator command: /# SET LIST Where # is the RACF subsystem prefix. If you’re not […]
The MVS command to display the defined command prefixes for the subsystems in the sysplex is: /D OPDATA,PREFIX The shorter version of this command is: /D O Note: PREFIX is the default operand so you do not need to specify it. An example of what the DISPLAY OPDATA command will […]
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.
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