Delete Table (DLTTBL)

Where allowed to run: All environments (*ALL)
Threadsafe: No 		Parameters
Examples
Error messages

The Delete Table (DLTTBL) command deletes the specified table(s).

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Parameters

Keyword Description Choices Notes
TBL Table Qualified object name Required, Positional 1
Qualifier 1: Table Generic name, name
Qualifier 2: Library Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB, *USRLIBL, *ALL, *ALLUSR
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Table (TBL)

Specifies the name of the table(s) being deleted. A specific table or a generic table can be specified; either type can be optionally qualified by a library name.

This is a required parameter.

The possible values are:

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

The possible library values are:

*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 tables to delete. If no current library entry exists in the library list, 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.
library-name
Specify a library name. Only the library named in this parameter is searched for tables to delete.
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Examples 

DLTTBL   TBL(SCRAMTBL)

This command deletes the table named SCRAMTBL from the system.

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Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF2105
Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.
CPF2110
Library &1 not found.
CPF2114
Cannot allocate object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2117
&4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.
CPF2182
Not authorized to library &1.
CPF2189
Not authorized to object &1 in &2 type *&3.
CPF2625
Not able to allocate object &1.
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