DELETE
The DELETE command deletes catalogs, VSAM data sets, non-VSAM data sets, and objects. The syntax of the DELETE command is:
| Command | Parameters |
|---|---|
| DELETE | (entryname[ entryname ...]) |
| [ALIAS| | |
| ALTERNATEINDEX| | |
| CLUSTER| | |
| GENERATIONDATAGROUP| | |
| LIBRARYENTRY| | |
| NONVSAM| | |
| NVR| | |
| PAGESPACE| | |
| PATH| | |
| TRUENAME| | |
| USERCATALOG| | |
| VOLUMEENTRY| | |
| VVR] | |
| [ERASE|NOERASE] | |
| [FILE(ddname)] | |
| [FORCE|NOFORCE] | |
| [MASK|NOMASK] | |
| NODISCONNECT | |
| [PURGE|NOPURGE] | |
| [RECOVERY|NORECOVERY] | |
| [SCRATCH|NOSCRATCH] | |
| [CATALOG(catname)] | |
For VSAM RLS recoverable data sets, DELETE CLUSTER removes all
pending recovery information for the sphere.
Recommendation: Do not delete
any entryname for which there is any activity on any system in the
sysplex, that is, active units of recovery, commits or back outs.
Before deleting any entryname for which there is currently no activity
but for which there are shunted log records, use the SHCDS PURGE command
to clear the owed sync point (commit or back out). Otherwise, when
the sync point is eventually retried, it will fail. In addition, you
might receive unpredictable results on a future backout if a data
set with the same name is later created.
DELETE can be abbreviated: DEL