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[mdisulaiman]

hai all,

is it possible to delete a vsam file through cics
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sulaiman

[kolusu]

mdisulaiman,

what exactly do you mean by delete a file? Do you want to delete the file (removing catalog entry) ? or is it just deleting the records in a vsam file?

If you want to delete the cluster entirely ,You can write the following JCL to a spool which will be submitted.

[mdisulaiman]

hai kolusu,

thanks for your info.


bye
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[jim haire]

Only 17 years later, a similar question. here is the scenario:

A customer transmits a file to our mainframe and it gets stored in a sequential dataset (not a PDS). Our transmit process purposely does not allow a file to be sent to overlay what is existing in the sequential datsaset.

A job runs and abends in one of the programs, possibly because the file contained invalid data. We would like to "reset" the environment so that the job can be restarted.

This would entail our support staff choosing an option from a CICS screen which would update a few fields on a database. We would also like the CICS transaction to delete the sequential file so that a new customer file could be sent to replace the one containing the invalid data.

Is it possible to delete a dataset from within CICS? I know I could place a message in an MQ and trigger a job in that way, but didn't want to involve another technology if not needed.

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[kolusu]

jim haire,

You can use EXEC CICS SPOOL to submit a batch job to INTRDR. So simply generate the DELETE JCL and submit it to INTRDR

Here are a few examples

1. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.6.0/applications/designing/dfhp3tz.html

2. Submit JCL to INTRDR from CICS
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[jim haire]

Thanks, Kolusu. I will give it a try!