Delete Table (DLTTBL)

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

The Delete Table (DLTTBL) command deletes the specified table(s).

Parameters

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

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Table (TBL)

Specifies the name of the table(s) being deleted. A specific table or a generic table can be specified; either type can be optionally qualified by a library name.

This is a required parameter.

The possible values are:

table-name: Specify the qualified name of the table that is deleted.
generic*-table-name: Specify the generic name of the table that is deleted. A generic name can be specified as a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, then all tables that have names with the same prefix as the generic table name are 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 for the job is searched for tables to delete. 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.

library-name: Specify a library name. Only the library named in this parameter is searched for tables to delete.

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Examples

DLTTBL   TBL(SCRAMTBL)

This command deletes the table named SCRAMTBL from the system.

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Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF2105: Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.
CPF2110: Library &1 not found.
CPF2114: Cannot allocate object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2117: &4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.
CPF2182: Not authorized to library &1.
CPF2189: Not authorized to object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2625: Not able to allocate object &1.

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