Delete Filter (DLTFTR)

The Delete Filter (DLTFTR) command deletes a filter object from the specified library.

Parameters

Keyword Description Choices Notes
FILTER Filter Qualified object name Required, Positional 1
Qualifier 1: Filter Generic name, name
Qualifier 2: Library Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB, *USRLIBL, *ALL, *ALLUSR

Filter (FILTER)

Specifies the qualified name of the filter being deleted.

The possible library values are:

*LIBL
All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched until the first match is found.
*CURLIB
The current library is searched. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, the QGPL library is used.
*USRLIBL
Only the libraries in the user portion of the job's library list are searched.
*ALL
All libraries in the system, including QSYS, are searched.
*ALLUSR
All user libraries are searched. All libraries with names that do not begin with the letter Q are searched except for the following: 

#CGULIB     #DSULIB     #SEULIB
#COBLIB     #RPGLIB
#DFULIB     #SDALIB

Although the following Qxxx libraries are provided by IBM, they typically contain user data that changes frequently. Therefore, these libraries are considered user libraries and are also searched: 

QDSNX       QRCLxxxxx   QUSRDIRDB   QUSRVI
QGPL        QSRVAGT     QUSRIJS     QUSRVxRxMx
QGPL38      QSYS2       QUSRINFSKR
QMGTC       QSYS2xxxxx  QUSRNOTES
QMGTC2      QS36F       QUSROND
QMPGDATA    QUSER38     QUSRPOSGS
QMQMDATA    QUSRADSM    QUSRPOSSA
QMQMPROC    QUSRBRM     QUSRPYMSVR
QPFRDATA    QUSRDIRCF   QUSRRDARS
QRCL        QUSRDIRCL   QUSRSYS

  1. 'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
  2. A different library name, in the format QUSRVxRxMx, can be created by the user for each previous release supported by IBM to contain any user commands to be compiled in a CL program for the previous release. For the QUSRVxRxMx user library, VxRxMx is the version, release, and modification level of a previous release that IBM continues to support.
library-name
Specify the name of the library to be searched.
filter-name
Specify the name of the filter being deleted.
generic*-filter-name
Specify the generic name of the filter being deleted. A generic name is a character string of one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*); for example, ABC*. If a generic name is specified, then all filters with names that begin with the generic name, and for which the user has authority, are deleted. If an asterisk is not included with the generic (prefix) name, the system assumes it to be the complete filter name.

Examples 

DLTFTR   FILTER(MYLIB/MYFILTER)

This command deletes filter MYFILTER from library MYLIB.

Error messages

None