Delete Menu (DLTMNU)

The Delete Menu (DLTMNU) command deletes the specified menu from the system.

Note: This command also allows you to delete the display files and message files associated with a Display File (*DSPF) menu, or to delete the program associated with a Program (*PGM) menu.

Restrictions:

You must have object existence (*OBJEXIST), object management (*OBJMGT), and object operational (*OBJOPR) authorities for the menu, and use (*USE) authority for the library where the menu is located.

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
MENU	Menu	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
Qualifier 1: Menu	Generic name, name
Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB, USRLIBL, ALL, *ALLUSR
DLTREFOBJ	Delete referenced objects	Single values: NONE, ALL Other values (up to 3 repetitions): DSPF, MSGF, *PGM	Optional

Menu (MENU)

Specifies the menu or menus to be deleted.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Menu

generic-name: Specify the generic name of the menus to be deleted. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, all menus that have names with the same prefix as the generic menu name are deleted.
name: Specify the name of the menu 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.

*CURLIB: The current library for the thread is searched. If no library is specified as the current library for the thread, the QGPL library is searched.

*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.

*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

'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
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.

*ALL: All libraries in the system, including QSYS, are searched.

name: Specify the name of the library to be searched.

Delete referenced objects (DLTREFOBJ)

Specifies that the display file, message file, or program objects referred to by the menu are to be deleted. Only TYPE(*DSPF) menus can refer to a display file or a message file and only TYPE(*PGM) menus can refer to a program.

Note: The current and product libraries that are specified for the menu are not used to find and delete objects.

Single values

*NONE: None of the objects referred to by the menu are to be deleted.
*ALL: All display file, message file, and program objects referred to by the menu are to be deleted.

Other values (up to 3 repetitions)

*DSPF: The display file referred to by the menu is to be deleted.
*MSGF: The message file that is referred to by the menu is to be deleted.
*PGM: The program that is referred to by the menu is to be deleted.

Examples

Example 1: Deleting the Menu Only

DLTMNU   MENU(FINLIB/ARMENU)

This command deletes the menu named ARMENU from the library named FINLIB.

Example 2: Deleting the Display and Message File

DLTMNU   MENU(EXLIB/TEST)  DLTREFOBJ(*DSPF *MSGF)

This command deletes the menu named TEST from the library named EXLIB. It also deletes the display file and message file associated with the menu named TEST.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF2105: Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.
CPF2107: Library not cleared or deleted. Function check occurred.
CPF2110: Library &1 not found.
CPF2113: Cannot allocate library &1.
CPF2114: Cannot allocate object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2117: &4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.
CPF2125: No objects deleted.
CPF2160: Object type *&1 not eligible for requested function.
CPF2176: Library &1 damaged.
CPF2182: Not authorized to library &1.
CPF2189: Not authorized to object &1 in &2 type *&3.