Remove RDB Directory Entry (RMVRDBDIRE)

The Remove Relational Database Directory Entry (RMVRDBDIRE) command removes a specific entry, generic entries, all entries, or all remote entries from the relational database (RDB) directory.

Restrictions:

*IOSYSCFG special authority is needed to remove the *LOCAL RDB entry.

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
RDB	Entry	Generic name, name, ALL, ALLRMT	Required, Positional 1

Entry (RDB)

Specifies the relational database directory entry. If an entry has no alias, the relational database name is used as the entry name. If an entry has an alias, the alias is used as the entry name.

This is a required parameter.

The possible values are:

*ALLRMT: All entries except the *LOCAL entry in the RDB directory are removed.
*ALL: All entries in the RDB directory are removed.
generic*-relational-database-name: Specify the generic name of the RDB entries to be removed. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*).
relational-database-name: Specify the name of the RDB entry to be removed.

Examples

RMVRDBDIRE   RDB(YOURRDB)

This command removes the entry YOURRDB from the relational database directory. The entry is no longer accessible.