The Delete Job Queue (DLTJOBQ) command deletes the specified job queue(s) from the system.

Restrictions

• The job queue being deleted cannot contain any entries: all jobs on the queue must be completed, deleted, or moved to a different job queue.
• A subsystem cannot be active to the job queue.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
JOBQ	Job queue	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: Job queue	Generic name, name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB, *USRLIBL, *ALL, *ALLUSR

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Job queue (JOBQ)

Specifies the job queue(s) to be deleted. A specific job queue or a generic job queue can be specified; either type can be optionally qualified by a library name.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Job queue

generic-name

Specify the generic name of the job queues that are to be deleted. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*), such as 'AR*'. If a generic name is specified, then all job queues that have names with the same prefix as the generic job queue name are deleted. The libraries searched for the job queues to be deleted depend on the library qualifier that is specified or assumed.

name

Specify the name of the job queue to be deleted.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL

All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched until the first match is found.

*USRLIBL

If a current library entry exists in the library list for the current thread, the current library and the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched. If there is no current library entry, only the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched.

*ALL

All libraries in the system, including QSYS, are searched.

*ALLUSR

All user libraries are searched. All libraries with names that do not begin with the letter Q are searched except for the following:

#CGULIB     #DSULIB     #SEULIB
#COBLIB     #RPGLIB
#DFULIB     #SDALIB

Although the following Qxxx libraries are provided by IBM, they typically contain user data that changes frequently. Therefore, these libraries are considered user libraries and are also searched:

QDSNX       QRCLxxxxx   QUSRIJS     QUSRVxRxMx
QGPL        QSRVAGT     QUSRINFSKR
QGPL38      QSYS2       QUSRNOTES
QMGTC       QSYS2xxxxx  QUSROND
QMGTC2      QS36F       QUSRPOSGS
QMPGDATA    QUSER38     QUSRPOSSA
QMQMDATA    QUSRADSM    QUSRPYMSVR
QMQMPROC    QUSRBRM     QUSRRDARS
QPFRDATA    QUSRDIRCL   QUSRSYS
QRCL        QUSRDIRDB   QUSRVI

1. 'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
2. A different library name, in the format QUSRVxRxMx, can be created by the user for each previous release supported by IBM to contain any user commands to be compiled in a CL program for the previous release. For the QUSRVxRxMx user library, VxRxMx is the version, release, and modification level of a previous release that IBM continues to support.

*CURLIB

The current library for the job is used to locate the job queue. If no current library entry exists in the library list, QGPL is used.

name

Specify the name of the library where the job queue is located.

Examples

DLTJOBQ   JOBQ(SPECIALJQ)

This command deletes the job queue SPECIALJQ from the system.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF1763

Cannot allocate one or more libraries.

CPF2105

Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.

CPF2110

Library &1 not found.

CPF2117

&4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.

CPF2182

Not authorized to library &1.

CPF2207

Not authorized to use object &1 in library &3 type *&2.

CPF3324

Job queue &1 in &2 not deleted. Job queue in use.

CPF3330

Necessary resource not available.