Delete or update with wildcards TPX Batch

Products

• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Trying to delete with wildcard masking fails:

     DELETE TPX USER(A-)                                     
Mask character  - found where not allowed, suppressing action
VSAM GET return code is    8                                 
 means record not found on file                              
  while DELETing UA- 

Environment

TPX® Session Management for z/OS

Resolution

You cannot delete directly with wildcard masking. You must first extract with wildcard masking, then delete using the extracted file.

You can specify an extract file in a DELETE statement when you want to delete user records, user session records, user profile records, profile records, and profile session records.

The same applies to UPDATE.

Important:

• When deleting users and profiles using an extract file, always use the extract file to print a report first to make sure that you are not deleting records that you do not want to delete.

• You should also back up the administration data sets before running Batch.

C                                                                        
C Trying to delete directly with a mask will fail                        
C                                                                        
     DELETE TPX USER(A-)                                                 
Mask character  - found where not allowed, suppressing action            
VSAM GET return code is    8                                             
 means record not found on file                                          
  while DELETing UA-                                                     
C                                                                        
EXTRACT GIVING(EXTFILE) USER AND NO SESSIONS (UIDXNAME(A-))              
         3 Records written GIVING (EXTFILE )                             
C                                                                        
SET RTITLE1 ' USERID  '                                                  
SET RTITLE2 ' ========'                                                  
REPORT GIVING(RPTFILE) USING (EXTFILE)                                   
      ((' &UIDXNAME ' ))                                                 
         3 Records read USING (EXTFILE )                                 
         5 Records written GIVING (RPTFILE )                             
C
C  REVIEW report output before executing the DELETE!!
C                                                                        
DELETE USER USING(EXTFILE)                                               
UA1               DELETed                                                
UA2               DELETed                                                
UA3               DELETed                                                
         3 Records read USING (EXTFILE )
        22 records read from SYSIN      
 TERMINATION REQUEST ACCEPTED           

USERID  
========
A1      
A2      
A3 

Additional Information

TPX 5.4 - Batch Administration