Delete Data Area (DLTDTAARA)

The Delete Data Area (DLTDTAARA) command deletes the specified data areas from a library.

Restrictions:

1. To use this command, you must have object existence (*OBJEXIST) authority for the data area, and execute (*EXECUTE) authority for the library.
2. Local data areas, group data areas, and program initialization parameter data areas cannot be deleted.

Parameters

Data area (DTAARA)

Specifies the name and library of the data areas being deleted. A specific data area or a generic data area can be specified; either type can be optionally qualified by a library name.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Data area

generic-name

Specify the generic name of the data area being deleted. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, then all data areas that have names with the same prefix as the generic data area name are deleted.

name

Specify the name of the data area.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL

All libraries in the thread's library list are searched until a match is found. If a specific object name is specified (instead of a generic name), only the first object found to have that name is deleted.

*CURLIB

The current library for the thread is used to locate the object. If no library is specified as the current library for the thread, the QGPL library is used.

*USRLIBL

Only the libraries listed in the user portion of the library list are searched. If a specific object name is specified (instead of a generic name), only the first object found with that name is deleted.

*ALL

All libraries in auxiliary storage pools (ASPs) that are currently part of the thread's library name space will be searched. This includes the system ASP (ASP 1), all defined basic user ASPs (ASPs 2-32), and, if the thread has an ASP group, the primary and secondary ASPs in the thread's ASP group. Only your own QTEMP library is searched. All objects matching the specified name and object type in all libraries in the thread's name space are deleted.

*ALLUSR

All user libraries are searched. All libraries with names that do not begin with the letter Q are searched except for the following:

#CGULIB     #DSULIB     #SEULIB
#COBLIB     #RPGLIB
#DFULIB     #SDALIB

Although the following Qxxx libraries are provided by IBM, they typically contain user data that changes frequently. Therefore, these libraries are considered user libraries and are also searched:

QDSNX       QRCLxxxxx   QUSRDIRDB   QUSRVI
QGPL        QSRVAGT     QUSRIJS     QUSRVxRxMx
QGPL38      QSYS2       QUSRINFSKR
QMGTC       QSYS2xxxxx  QUSRNOTES
QMGTC2      QS36F       QUSROND
QMPGDATA    QUSER38     QUSRPOSGS
QMQMDATA    QUSRADSM    QUSRPOSSA
QMQMPROC    QUSRBRM     QUSRPYMSVR
QPFRDATA    QUSRDIRCF   QUSRRDARS
QRCL        QUSRDIRCL   QUSRSYS

1. 'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
2. A different library name, in the format QUSRVxRxMx, can be created by the user for each previous release supported by IBM to contain any user commands to be compiled in a CL program for the previous release. For the QUSRVxRxMx user library, VxRxMx is the version, release, and modification level of a previous release that IBM continues to support.

name

Specify the library where the data area is located.

Examples

DLTDTAARA   DTAARA(MYLIB/MYDATA)

This command deletes the data area named MYDATA from the library MYLIB if the user has the proper authority for the data area and the library.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF2105

Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.

CPF2110

Library &1 not found.

CPF2113

Cannot allocate library &1.

CPF2114

Cannot allocate object &1 in &2 type *&3.

CPF2117

&4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.

CPF2176

Library &1 damaged.

CPF2182

Not authorized to library &1.

CPF2189

Not authorized to object &1 in &2 type *&3.