DROP – Drop elements from memory
Use the DROP command to drop saved
structures from memory.
DROP <type>(<item>) [,<type>(<item>)...]
where:
<type>- The type of element being dropped from memory, this can be
SAVELISTorOBJECT. <item>- The name of the element being dropped.
The DROP command drops saved structures
from memory. For large elements this might be required to reduce storage
consumption, especially if multiple SAVELIST elements
are merged using the MERGE command, or many
large OBJECT elements are extracted from the
database.
You can drop more than one element at once by repeating the keyword.
For example, DROP OBJECT(AD1) OBJECT(AD2).
Where a LIST request has generated multiple
objects, dropping the LIST object also drops
all of the generated objects.
Note: Before Workload Automation Programming Language version
3.4, only one kind of object could be dropped therefore the object
type was not required. For backwards compatibility, if a
SAVELIST name
is provided without a keyword, it is assumed to be a SAVELIST and
dropped. For example, DROP MYLIST is considered
equivalent to DROP SAVELIST(MYLIST). DROP
SAVELIST is considered equivalent to DROP
SAVELIST(SAVELIST).