Processing

When a ZONEDELETE command is encountered, SMP/E ensures that you made no mistake in entering the command, as follows:

SMP/E checks the operand on the ZONEDELETE command (that is, TARGETZONE, TZONE, DLIBZONE, or DZONE) and the zone type specified in the global zone ZONEINDEX to ensure that the zone types match. If they do not, an error condition is reported, and the ZONEDELETE request is not processed.
SMP/E checks the name specified on the ZONEDELETE command operand to ensure that it matches the names specified in the previous SET command. If not, an error condition is reported, and the ZONEDELETE request is not processed.

If the deleted zone contained cross-zone subentries, SMP/E issues warning messages.

If no verification errors occur, SMP/E deletes the specified zone from the CSI data set it was contained in. After deleting the target zone or distribution zone from the CSI data set, SMP/E deletes the global zone ZONEINDEX entry for that zone. SMP/E now has no references to the deleted zone.