Example
Operation: Delete an entry. In this example, a non-VSAM data set is deleted.
Known:
- The name of the data set to be deleted is EXAMPLE.NONVSAM.
- The prefix in the profile is D27UCAT.
- Your user ID is D27UCAT.
delete example.nonvsam scratch nonvsam
The DELETE command deletes the non-VSAM data set (D27UCAT.EXAMPLE.NONVSAM). Because the catalog in which the entry resides is assumed not to be password protected, the CATALOG operand is not required to delete the non-VSAM entry.
SCRATCH removes the VTOC entry of the non-VSAM data set. Because FILE is not coded, the volume that contains D27UCAT.EXAMPLE.NONVSAM is dynamically allocated.
NONVSAM ensures the entry being deleted is a non-VSAM data set. However, DELETE can still find and delete a non-VSAM data set if NONVSAM is omitted.