Orchadmin Command for Deleting Dataset file from server:

Orchadmin is a command line utility provided by datastage to research on data sets.

Using this command, you can view,copy,delete,modify the dataset through Command.

 The general callable format is : $orchadmin [options] [descriptor file]

1. Before using orchadmin, you should make sure that either the working directory or the $APT_ORCHHOME/etc  contains the file “config.apt” OR

The environment variable $APT_CONFIG_FILE  should be defined for your session.

Orchadmin commands

1. DELETE : $orchadmin < delete | del | rm >  [-f | -x] descriptorfiles….

The unix rm utility cannot be used to delete the datasets. The orchadmin delete or rm command should be used to delete one or more persistent data sets.

-f options makes a force delete. If some nodes are not accesible then -f forces to delete the dataset partitions from accessible nodes and leave the other partitions in inaccesible nodes as orphans.

-x forces to use the current config file to be used while deleting than the one stored in data set.