deleting from tape

fcrmf · New User Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Hi
I need to delete several thousand files from tape. Does anybody know a quick way of doing this?

fcrmf · New User Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

I found the answer elsewhere in this forum. I had wanted to delete thousands of SAR reports from tape after transferring them to the PC. Looks like I need to buy the CA PC-SAR product to do at least the transfer.

khamarutheen · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: DELETE FROM TAPE

Hi frnd,
use this code to delete file from tape and u can use the Catalog procedure which inturns in loop such that to delete the files in a continuous loop.

//DD1 DD DSNAME=HERBI,DISP=(OLD,DELETE,DELETE),UNIT=TAPE,
// VOLUME=SER=T2

akashs · New User Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 9 Location: chennai

can we delete tape files permanently?

khamarutheen · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:49 am Post subject: DELETE FROM TAPE

Hi frnd,
i think v can delete permanently.... but i have not tried with that just theoretically i know that.

fcrmf · New User Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

For deleting from tape, I first listed my files (which have multiple wild cards, for example, aaa.bbb.c*.d*.rpt)
then I saved the list using SAVE MYLIST. It saved it to my userid.
Then I used "r all", move/overlay cmds to edit the dataset which had my list (myuserid.mylist.datasets) to include DELETE in front of each record name and PURGE at the end of each record. You have to include ERASE at the end to replace the data with zeros otherwise the data will still be there to be overwritten by new data.
I then wrote an IDCAMS jcl and copy pasted myuserid.mylist.datasets and ran it.
The whole process didnt take long even though I had to do this 10 different times. We dont have licenses for that ADRsomething program mentioned elsewhere.
I got this idea from another forum.

khamarutheen · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:44 am Post subject: Tape Deletion

Hi frnd,

Thanks for sharing this valuable information with us.