Binyamin,
ITschak described how to SWITCH OLDS - though under supported IMS releases, 
/SWI OLDS would be preferred as you don't need to have a database to take 
offline... but I'm not sure that is what you are trying to do...

The only time IMS will indicate a PURGE of the OLDS is during abnormal 
termination - 
Among the first messages produced when IMS is terminating abnormally:
 - DFS3896I ATTEMPTING TO PURGE OLDS BUFFERS
Followed by one of:
- DFS616I, OLDS BUFFERS SUCCESSFULLY PURGED
- DFS616I, OLDS BUFFER PURGE FAILED

The only means to drive this processing is to cause a control region 
terminating abend (A MODIFY Command: F imsjob,STOP would do it - causing a 
U0020 abend... Use F imsjob,DUMP if you want an SVC dump of the U0020)

Hope that helps...
Greg Cardillo 
Email: [email protected] 


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Of Itschak Mugzach
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:15 PM
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Subject: Re: IMS - how can I force the OLDS purge

/DBR DB xxx (xxx=dbd name) will cause a log switch and DBRC gengcl to copy the 
logs. If you coinfigure your skeleton jcl to write on ice (dummy, or same 
file), you will have a new log with no access to old log.

ITschak


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]
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> I would like to reproduce a problem.
>
> How can I force IMS to do an OLDS purge?
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