Dave, At R1.13 z/OS you can use the DEL 'MYDSN(member)' in rexx. Also note, the member can contain a mask so if you wanted to delete all members that being with A you can issue
DEL 'MYDSN(A*)' and it should remove all the members that being with A. If you allocate MYDSN with SHR REUSE in your REXX I would think you could delete members. I have not tried this. Or, if you have not done so, you can join the TSO-REXX newsgroup and query there. I am thinking that the ISPF LM services may be your friend in this case. Lizette > >Group, > > We are running z/OS V1R13 and a product called VPS. I wrote some code to > ADD, UPDATE and DELETE members of a PDS. It worked fine until VPS came up. > I see that the VPS started task "OWNS SHR" the dataset. > I need to allocate a dataset exclusively (EXCL/DISP=MOD) to do a delete from > REXX (or batch). > I can go out by hand using 3.4 and delete all I want from the dataset while > VPS is up. > I asked the vendor if they can FREE the dataset after program > initialization. Waiting to hear back. > > >Q). What is the best way to delete a PDS member while the started task has it >allocated DISP=SHR? > > > Thanks in advance, Dave > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
