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by chula
Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:02 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Why use orchadmin to delete datasets?
Replies: 10
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I'm aware of the descriptor file (.ds) and the data files under the node# folders. Where would you find the control and header files and how are they named.

Thanks
by chula
Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:15 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Why use orchadmin to delete datasets?
Replies: 10
Views: 10152

Why use orchadmin to delete datasets?

There are numerous discussions about using orchadmin to delete datasets, but I am curious why it's so important to use this tool rather than a clever find -mtime -exec rm {} command running thru the *.ds files and all of the dataset folders under each node. What is orchadmin doing for me that I cann...