MVS file selection criteria

When you enter the S line command to specify selection criteria for an MVS object in the Object Selection Criteria screen. File-AID/RDX continues with the Selection Criteria Menu - TEMPORARY and allows you to specify the selection criteria to be applied to the selected MVS object. The selection criteria will limit the records to be extracted from the object to those that meet the criteria.

The Temporary Selection Criteria function allows you to create sets of criteria that File-AID/RDX uses to select records in a data file for processing.

Related topics

Selection criteria menu

Formatted selection criteria

File-AID/RDX provides selection criteria options and formatted selection criteria. The selection criteria options allow you to specify:

  • Where to begin record selection
  • How to continue (selection intervals)
  • When to stop
  • Processing direction.

The selection criteria options can be combined with formatted selection criteria.

Formatted selection criteria allow you to select records based on data within a field as specified by a record layout.

Temporary selection criteria are valid only for the duration of the extract function. Temporary selection criteria are not stored for future use unless you explicitly save the Extract Request file (see Output Key File Definition). When you finish creating the temporary selection criteria, they are applied and you continue with the Extract utility.

The next section in this chapter discusses the screen presentation order and navigation commands available for Selection Criteria.

 

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