The Remove Member (RMVM) command removes one or more members from the specified physical file or logical file. If the member is removed from a physical file, both the member and the member data are deleted from the system. If the member is removed from a logical file, the member and the access path to the data in the physical file member are deleted from the system.

Restrictions:

• If a member of another file is sharing the data of the member being deleted, the dependent member must be removed first.
• You must have object existence (*OBJEXIST) authority for the file that contains the member or members.
• This command is conditionally threadsafe. In multithreaded jobs, this command is not threadsafe for Distributed Data Management (DDM) files of type *SNA, when SYSTEM(*RMT) or SYSTEM(*FILETYPE) is specified.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
FILE	Data base file	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: Data base file	Name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB
MBR	Member	Generic name, name, *ALL	Required, Positional 2

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Data base file (FILE)

Specifies the physical file or logical file that contains the member or members to be removed.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Data base file

name

Specify the name of the database file.

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 used to locate the file. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, QGPL is used.

name

Specify the library where the file is located.

Member (MBR)

Specifies the file member or members to be removed.

This is a required parameter.

*ALL

All members are to be removed from the specified file.

generic-name

Specify the generic name of the members to be removed from the file. A generic name consists of a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk(*). If a generic member name is specified, all members in the specified file that have names with the same prefix as the generic member name are removed.

name

Specify the name of the member to be removed from the file.

Examples

Example 1: Removing a File Member

RMVM   FILE(JOBHIST1)  MBR(JOBHIST1A)

This command removes file member JOBHIST1A from file JOBHIST1. Library list *LIBL is used to find the file and member. If JOBHIST1 contains other members, they remain unchanged.

Example 2: Removing Members with Names that Start with SRC

RMVM   FILE(QGPL/JOBHISTL) MBR(SRC*)

This command removes all file members with names that start with SRC from file JOBHISTL in library QGPL.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF32CF

Distributed file error, reason code &3.

CPF32C3

Distributed file error, level ID mismatch

CPF320A

Member &3 cannot be removed.

CPF320B

Operation was not valid for database file &1.

CPF3203

Cannot allocate object for file &1 in &2.

CPF3220

Cannot do operation on file &1 in &2.

CPF3273

File or member not created, deleted or changed.

CPF7301

&5 members not removed from file &2 in &3.

CPF7310

Member &1 not removed from file &2 in &3.