The Delete Page Definition (DLTPAGDFN) command deletes a page definition from the specified library. If the page definition is not found, a message is sent to the user stating that the page segment could not be found.

Restriction: You must have *OBJEXIST authority to delete an object.

Parameters

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

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Page definition (PAGDFN)

Specifies the page definition to be deleted. You can specify a particular page definition or a generic page definition.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Page definition

generic-name

Specify the generic name of the page definitions 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 of the page definitions that have names with the same prefix as the generic page definition name are deleted.

name

Specify the name of the page definition 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.

*CURLIB

Only the current library is searched. If no current library entry exists in the library list, QGPL is used.

*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.

name

Specify the name of the library to be searched.

Examples

Example 1: Deleting a Page Definition from the Current Library

DLTPAGDFN   PAGDFN(*CURLIB/P1DFLT)

This command deletes page definition P1DFLT if it is found in the current library.

Example 2: Deleting Page Definitions

DLTPAGDFN   PAGDFN(*LIBL/P1*)

This command deletes all page definitions that begin with P1 in the job's library list.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF2105

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

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.

CPF2176

Library &1 damaged.

CPF2182

Not authorized to library &1.

CPF2189

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