Delete Program (DLTPGM)

Where allowed to run: All environments (*ALL)
Threadsafe: No

The Delete Program (DLTPGM) command deletes a compiled program or group of programs. If the program is currently being run, the program processing is abnormally ended when this command is issued unless a specific Allocate Object (ALCOBJ) command is in effect in another job. Any high-level language (HLL) or CL program can be deleted.

Restrictions:

You must have object existence (*OBJEXIST) authority to the program, and execute (*EXECUTE) authority to the library where the program is located.
If the program to be deleted is currently being debugged, a function check occurs if an implicit reference is made to the deleted program (for example, if a Change Variable (CHGVAR) command specifies PGM(*DFTPGM)). To prevent function checks, use the Remove Program (RMVPGM) command to remove the program from the debugging session before deleting it. If the program is recompiled while the user is in debug mode, remove the program from debug mode (using the RMVPGM command), delete it from the system (using the Delete Program (DLTPGM) command), change and recompile the program, and add the new version of the program to debug mode (using the Add Program (ADDPGM) command).

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Parameters

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

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Program (PGM)

Specifies the program to be deleted. A specific program or a generic program can be specified; either type can be optionally qualified by a library name.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Program

name: Specify the name of the program to be deleted.
generic-name: Specify the generic name of the programs that are to be deleted. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*).

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. If no current library entry exists in the library list, 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

'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
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.

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Examples

DLTPGM   PGM(LIB1/PROG1)

This command deletes the program PROG1 from the library LIB1 if the user has the proper authority for the program and library.

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Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF210F: Operation not successful for &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2105: Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.
CPF2110: Library &1 not found.
CPF2113: Cannot allocate library &1.
CPF2114: Cannot allocate object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2117: &4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.
CPF2125: No objects deleted.
CPF2160: Object type *&1 not eligible for requested function.
CPF2176: Library &1 damaged.
CPF2182: Not authorized to library &1.
CPF2189: Not authorized to object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPFA030: Object already in use.
CPFE007: Error occurred processing command.
CPF9803: Cannot allocate object &2 in library &3.

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