The Delete Form Definition (DLTFORMDF) command deletes a form definition from the specified library. If the form definition is found, it is deleted. If the form definition is not found, a message is sent to the user stating that the form definition could not be found.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
FORMDF	Form definition	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: Form definition	Generic name, name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB, *USRLIBL, *ALL, *ALLUSR

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Form definition (FORMDF)

Specifies the form definition to be deleted. A specific form definition or a generic form definition can be specified.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Form definition

generic-name

Specify the generic name of the form definitions to delete. A generic name a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, then all form definitions that have names with the same prefix as the generic form definition are deleted.

name

Specify the name of the form definition to delete.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL

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

*CURLIB

The current library for the job is searched for form definitions to delete. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, QGPL is used.

*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.

Examples

Example 1: Deleting the First Occurrence of a Specified Form Definition

DLTFORMDF   FORMDF(*LIBL/FORMDF1)

This command deletes the first occurrence of FORMDF1 if it was found in the library list.

Example 2: Deleting All Occurrences of a Specified Form Definition

DLTFORMDF   FORMDF(*ALLUSR/FORMDF1)

This command deletes all the form definitions named FORMDF1 in all user libraries. Libraries beginning with a Q, except for the QGPL library, are not searched.

Example 3: Deleting Form Definitions That Begin With FD

DLTFORMDF   FORMDF(*USERLIBL/FD*)

This command deletes all the form definitions that begin with FD in all the user libraries.

Error messages

None