Delete Page Segment (DLTPAGSEG)

The Delete Page Segment (DLTPAGSEG) command deletes a page segment from the specified library. If the page segment is found, it is deleted. If the page segment is not found, a message is sent to the user stating that the page segment could not be found.

Parameters

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

Page segment (PAGSEG)

Specifies the page segment to delete. A specific page segment or a generic page segment can be specified.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Page segment

generic-name
Specify the generic name of the page segments to delete. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, then all page segments that have names with the same prefix as the generic page segment name are deleted.
name
Specify the name of the page segment to delete.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL
All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched until the first match is found.
*CURLIB
The current library for the job is searched for page segments to delete. If no library specified as the current library for the job, QGPL is used.
*USRLIBL
If a current library entry exists in the library list for the current thread, the current library and the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched. If there is no current library entry, only the libraries in the user portion of the 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.
name
Specify a library name. Only the library named in this parameter is searched for page segments to delete.

Examples

Example 1: Deleting a Page Segment in the Library List 

DLTPAGSEG   PAGSEG(*LIBL/PAGSEG1)

This command deletes the page segment named PAGSEG1 if it is in a library in the library list. Only the first occurrence is deleted if there is more than one library containing PAGSEG1 in the library list.

Example 2: Deleting a Page Segment in All Libraries 

DLTPAGSEG   PAGSEG(*ALL/PAGSEG1)

This command deletes all the page segments named PAGSEG1, including any IBM supplied page segments with that name.

Example 3: Deleting Page Segments in Current Library 

DLTPAGSEG   PAGSEG(*CURLIB/PG*)

This command deletes all the page segments whose names begin with PG that are in the job's current library.

Error messages

None