IEHPROGM (Program Maintenance) Program

IEHPROGM is a system utility that is used to modify system control data and to maintain data sets at an organizational level. IEHPROGM should only be used by those programmers who are locally authorized to do so.

IEHPROGM does not support dynamic UCBs while processing data sets that are password-protected.

You can use IEHPROGM to perform the following tasks:

Scratch (delete) a data set or a member of a partitioned data set.
Rename a data set or a member of a partitioned data set.
Maintain data set passwords.

You must have RACF authority in order to use IEHPROGM.

IDCAMS is recommended for use with SMS managed data sets.

You can write an assembler program to perform any of the IEHPROGM functions.

Related reading:

For information on IDCAMS, see z/OS DFSMS Access Method Services Commands.
For more information, see z/OS DFSMSdfp Advanced Services and z/OS DFSMS Using Data Sets.
For information on RACF requirements for the Storage Management Subsystem, see z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage Administration.