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Is there anything more irritating than a job failing because it is trying to
delete a dataset that doesn't exist?
There is, of course, the IDCAMS solution to this but that requires control
cards to be written (which really isn't an issue if you use
ASLPARMC), then there is the IEFBR14 solution that could
result in jobs failing with a JCL error. Neither of these is particularly
useful and can result in failing jobs. Therefore we use ASLDEL
(formerly UTDELETE).
ASLDEL is a program that will delete a dataset, if it exists, that is
passed to it as a parameter.
In the event that the dataset does not exist ASLDEL will, by default,
return a condition code of 8, however, it can be made to always return a
condition code of 0. To make it return a condition code of zero simply
pass 'RC=0', 'COND=0' or 'CODE=0' as the first parameter string that is
passed to the program.
i.e EXEC PGM=ASLDEL,PARM='COND=0,your.dataset'
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