Jeff Kell wrote:

> Johnson, Tracy wrote:
> 
>> Jeff asks:
>>
>>> Is this perhaps a reference to the "feature" that you cannot purge a
>>> group that someone is logged into?
> 
>>> Found out the hard way of course many years ago.  Wondered why I
>>> couldn't get rid of it the first time.  Then it dawned on me, by being
>>> logged into the group, I was also using the group I was trying to purge!
>>>
> But this is a "feature" when you want to purge every file in a group,
> for whatever reason, without purging the group itself.  Before the
> wildcard purge was added, it was a lifesaver for groups that collect
> logfiles, spool files, work files, etc.  Just login to the group and
> purgegroup it, and presto, files gone.  It's also much faster than a
> wildcard purge for groups with large numbers of files.

Not to mention PRIV files which cannot be deleted with the PURGE command
but will get deleted with PURGEGROUP.

Another trick for deleting PRIV files is STORE to $NULL using ;PURGE,
but that can be time consuming on very large files and if I am not
mistaken requires OP capability.

Doug.
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