Delete a sequential and partitioned data set

You can use this operation to delete sequential and partitioned data sets on a z/OS system.

HTTP method and URI path

DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/ds/<dataset-name>

DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/ds/-(<volume>)/<dataset-name>

where:

/zosmf/restfiles specifies the z/OS® data set and file REST interface
/ds indicates a data set request
<dataset-name> is the name of a z/OS data set, that you are going to delete.
<volume> is where the data set is resided, when the data set is uncatalogued.

Request Body

None.

Standard headers

None.

Custom headers

None.

Query parameters

None.

Content type

The content type is application/json.

Required authorizations

See Required authorizations.

Usage considerations

See Usage considerations for the z/OSMF REST services.

Expected response

On completion, the service returns an HTTP response, which includes a status code indicating whether your request completed. Status code 204 indicates success. A status code of 4nn or 5nn indicates that an error has occurred. For more details, see Error handling.

If the request is successfully executed, status code 204 indicates success and no content is returned.

Example request

In the following example, the DELETE method is used to delete a data set.

DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/ds/JIAHJ.REST.TEST.DATASET HTTP/1.1

Example response

A sample response is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Example: Delete a data set

204 No Content
Content-Type:  application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length:  0
Date:  Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:08:38 GMT

Example request

The DELETE method is used to delete an uncatalogued data set.

DELETE /zosmf/restfiles/ds/-(ZMF046)/JIAHJ.REST.TEST.DATASET2 HTTP/1.1

Example response

A sample response is shown in Delete uncatalogued data set.

Figure 2. Example: Delete uncatalogued data set.

204 No Content
Content-Type:  application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length:  0
Date:  Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:10:22 GMT