DELETE

Synopsis

HELP:   Delete member or records from archive
TYPE:   OBJECT
SYNTAX: DELETE(NET.{},STORE/SAVE.{},FLAM(),LOGGING.{},MESSAGE(),NORUN)

Description

The DELETE subcommand can be used to delete members or records from a FLAM archive using wildcards for the member name and match data.

In contrast to COMP( TO.MODIFY()), where you can make mass inserts, updates and deletes in an existing archive, the delete command is used, among other things, to delete individual records, which you can specify directly via the DATASET object. This gives you more flexibility, as you only have to specify individual columns and are completely free in terms of indexing.

In addition to deleting individual records, you can also delete entire members where these records meet if you have not set the SUBSET parameter.

This creates a new archive version where the deleted data no longer exists. It still remains accessible via older versions. If this is not what you want, you need to delete the respective old archive versions. Each archive version exists independently and is immutable.

To get syntax information, please use:

   flcl SYNTAX ARCHIVE.DELETE

To get help for a parameter, please use:

   flcl HELP ARCHIVE.DELETE.parameter[.parameter[...]]

To read the manual page for a parameter, please use:

   flcl MANPAGE ARCHIVE.DELETE.parameter[.parameter[...]]
      or
   flcl HELP ARCHIVE.DELETE.parameter[.parameter[...]] MAN

To generate the user manual for the command, please use:

   flcl GENDOCU ARCHIVE.DELETE=filename

Parameters can be defined via command line (directly or by parameter file) or via properties taken from the corresponding property file.

Arguments