SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

Procedures under z/OS PDS Procedure 323
REFRESH | NOREFRESH
specifies whether to update the directory information of the file that is being
processed after each operation. The default, REFRESH, updates the directory
information after each operation. Unless the operations that are being performed
by PROC PDS are dependent on each other, specify NOREFRESH for better
performance.
STRICT
causes error messages to be generated and sets the return code to 8 if no members
match the selection criteria. The default behavior is for note messages to be
generated and for the return code to be set to 0 if no members match the selection
criteria.
DELETE Statement
DELETE member-1 ;
If you want to delete a member or members from the PDS, specify the member names
in a DELETE statement.
When a specification in the DELETE statement is followed by a colon (:), all
members whose names begin with the characters preceding the colon are deleted. For
example, when the following statement is executed, PROC PDS deletes all members
whose names begin with the characters PRGM:
delete prgm:;
CHANGE Statement
CHANGE old-name-1 =new-name-1 ;
If you want to rename a member or members of the PDS, use the CHANGE statement.
Specify the old name on the left side of the equal sign, and specify the new name on the
right. For example, the following statements change the name of member TESTPGM to
PRODPGM:
filename loadlib ’my.pgm.lib ’;
proc pds ddname=loadlib;
change testpgm=prodpgm;
run;
If multiple members have names that begin with the same sequence of characters
and you want to change all of the names so that they begin with a different sequence,
use a colon (:) after old-name and new-name. Here is an example:
change exam:=test:;
All of the members whose names began with the characters EXAM will subsequently
have names beginning with the characters TEST.
Note: If changing the name of a member would make the name the same as that of
an existing member, then the member is not renamed and a note is written to the SAS
log. R
It is not necessary for the lengths of the character sequences that precede the colon
to match. For example, the following statement is valid:
change am:=morn:;