Delete a flat file in JCL.

[Shahid]

How can we delete a flat file in JCL? What utility should we use?

[enrico-sorichetti]

does

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... DISP=(OLD,DELETE) 

hint anything ?

[Robert Sample]

Most programmers use IEFBR14 to prevent unexpected side effects.

[Shahid]

Thanks. So can I use any program and just use DISP=(OLD,DELETE)?

[nicc]

That would depend on what you and why you are trying to delete. I would not use your bill writing program simply to clean up a few stray dtat sets - you do not want the bills except at bill production time. To simply delete datasets use, as has been suggested, IEFBR14 because it is a program that does nothing - it starts and it then ends. Nothing more. Your JCL statements are actioned by the operating system - not by the program.