In my jcl ,the 1st step is delete step, if the data set is existing, I want to delete, that one ,if dataset is no existing, I do not want abound the job, how can I code in display?

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Saradha

Oct 13th, 2005

Use IEFBR14 with DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE). This is a dummy utility, just to make sure that atleast one EXEC statement is present in the JOB. DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE) will delete the dataset, if it exists. If the dataset is not existing, then it will create and then delete it without abending the job.

seema nair

Apr 4th, 2006

Use IDCAMS DELETE utility in first step of JCL to delete all the files as shown below
//STEP0005 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSOUT   DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD   *
    DELETE ..DS1......(give dataset name here)
    DELETE ...DS2....
.
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   DELETE    DSn
        IF MAXCC = 8 THEN SET MAXCC = 0
/*