Action Option -DG (-DeleteGroup) :

deletes one or multiple groups from RDADB for given group indices of a specified dataset.

dsarch	[-(DS|Dataset)] dsnnn.n [-](DG|DeleteGroup) [Mode Options]
	-(GI|GroupIndex) GroupIndices
	[-(LN|LoginName) LoginAccountName]
	[-(DB|Debug) DebugModeInfo]

Mode options that can be specified for deleting group action:

The groups to be deleted are identified by group indices given per Info option -GI (-GroupIndex) and dataset number per option -DS. This action is blocked if there exist any subgroups or data files under the groups to be deleted. To delete the groups with files under them, you gather the files on Saved or RDA Server per action options, -GS (-GetSavedFile) or -GW (-GetWebFile), and set the group indices of the files to 0 or change them to other group indices via action -CG (-ChangeGroup), or delete the files gathered per action -DL (-Delete); then delete the groups.

EXAMPLE 8.

Delete Group Indices 2 And 3 Of Ds744.4

-(NT|NoTrim)	skip trimming of spaces and comments from input
-(RT|ResetTGroup)	reset top group index for the HPSS/Web file records
-(WN|WithFileNumber)	reevaluates and resets HPSS/Web file counts for the
-(WN|WithFileNumber)	reevaluates and resets HPSS/Web file counts for the affected groups

dsarch

744.4 DG -GI 2 3