Or, more recent versions of IDCAMS.

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  Original Message  
From: J O Skip Robinson
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 19:07
To: [email protected]
Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: (External):Re: Deleting all members of a pds

Can also be accomplished with PDS[85] command or StarTool product. 

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J.O.Skip Robinson
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: (External):Re: Deleting all members of a pds

I have installed the CBTTAPE.ORG utility PDSCLEAN for both PDS and PDSE 
datasets an it works very well. File 693.

Lizette



-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2015 3:51 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Deleting all members of a pds
>
>On 2015-11-19 14:54, Ed Finnell wrote:
>> File 182 on CBT tape contains PDS command. It's a great tool. Can 
>> delete or delete by mask add space, copy, merge and fix. The 
>> commercial version is Startools from Serena. Has saved my bacon numerous 
>> times.
>> 
> STOW DCB,,I
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>I believe (or hope) PDS uses that nowadays, since its older technique, 
>basically zapping the directory, didn't work for PDSE.
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>> In a message dated 11/19/2015 3:43:17 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
>> [email protected] writes:
>> 
>> Someone was asking about deleting all members of a pds. I just 
>> noticed that DFSort has a bunch of "samples" one of which includes 
>> how to use ICETOOL to delete all members of a PDS. Hope this helps. 
>> Lots of other neat things in here too.
>
>I hope it (and IDCAMS) uses STOW. Deleting members one-by-one can be expensive.
>But if so, first sort in reverse order.
>
>I'm not going to measure timings
>
>-- gil


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