Why can’t I delete the data set?

I had some data sets which I could not delete from ISPF 3;4 as I got

IEC614I SCRATCH FAILED – RC 008, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (04060020) ..

where the error code is

04060020 – Verification of SMS flags failed; caller indicates data set is not SMS-managed, but FMT4 DSCB indicates that it is an SMS volume. This error might be caused by a damaged catalog entry. Issuing the recatalog command might clear this error.

I tried to use various DFDSS commands such move, or backup delete, but these failed on the delete.

DATA SET BACKUP.D210201.COLIN.JCL ON VOLUME A4USR1 NOT SCRATCHED, 2-08,02 

IGD17040I ERROR IN DADSM PROCESSING ON VOLUME A4USR1 FOR DATA SET  
BACKUP.D210201.COLIN.JCL HISTORIC RETURN CODE IS 8 DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS 04060020              
IGD306I UNEXPECTED ERROR DURING IGGDAS02 PROCESSING RETURN CODE 4 REASON CODE 32                                             

This all looked pretty broken – until I found an easy command

//S1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
DELETE BACKUP.D210118.USER.Z24A.CLIST
/*

That worked! Having found one way of doing it – I could take it to the next level using the MASK option.

//S1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
DELETE BACKUP.D210215.** MASK
/*

This gave me

DELETE BACKUP.D210215.** MASK
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.ADCD.C.SOURCE DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.COLIN.C DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.COLIN.JCL DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.COLIN.RACF DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.COLIN.WLM DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.IBMUSER.JCL DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.IBMUSER.MQ.JCL DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.USER.Z24A.CLIST DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.USER.Z24A.PARMLIB DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.USER.Z24A.PROCLIB DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.USER.Z24A.TCPPARMS DELETED
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) BACKUP.D210215.USER.Z24A.VTAMLST DELETED
IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0

I thought this was pretty useful!

Just be a bit careful and do not say DELETE BACKUP.* MASK