Deleting Rule Sets

The saved Rule Set is a member of a partitioned data set (PDS) as the first data set of the BBIPARM DDNAME concatenation for the MainView AutoOPERATOR BBI-SS PAS. The Rule Set is saved with a member name that matches the Rule Set name that was used in the Rules Processor panels. The Rules Processor application does not provide an online facility that allows you to delete a Rule Set, even if a Rule Set does not contain any Rules.

If you have never issued the SAVE command for a Rule (or Rules) in a Rule Set, if you disable the Rule Set, it deletes the Rule Set and its contents are not retrievable.

After the Rules and Rule Set have been saved, the only way to delete a saved Rule Set is to disable the Rule Set from the Rules Processor application, edit the data set in ISPF (or another product) and delete the member (Rule Set).

Before you delete the Rule Set, you should ensure that other MainView AutoOPERATOR BBI-SS PASs are not sharing the data set. Also, note that when you delete a Rule Set (PDS member), and the Rule Set is enabled on any BBI-SS PAS, you are not deleting the Rules from the other BBI-SS PAS because the Rules are saved in common storage and continue to exist on that LPAR.

If you accidentally delete a Rule Set that was enabled in another MainView AutoOPERATOR BBI-SS PAS, you can copy the Rule Set to a MainView AutoOPERATOR BBI-SS PAS, enter the SAVE command, and restore the Rule Set.