Parameter elements

Location (loc)

Actual location or relative location address.

Operator (oper)

Binary (with binary data):

EQ	Bits are all ones
NE	Bits are all zeros
NO	Bits are not all ones
MX	Bits are mixed (ones and zeros).

Non-binary:

EQ	Equal to
NE	Not equal to
GT	Greater than
GE	Greater than or equal to
LE	Less than or equal to
LT	Less than.
BT	Between
NB	Not between

Length (len)

A number from 0 to 255 that does not exceed the record size. 0 searches until the end of the record.

Data

The actual data must follow one of the following data identifiers and be enclosed by single or double quotes:

C’10A11’	Character, alphanumeric
CL12’ABCD123’	Character, alphanumeric data length
X’10CF00’	Hexadecimal
P’001’	Packed
PL10’+1’	Packed data length
T’ABC’	Text
TL2’ABC’	Text, alphanumeric data length
B’01001000’	Binary mask (used for selection)
B’01001000’	Binary OR (REPL new-data only)
BM’C8’	Binary Minus (REPL parameter only new-data)
BS’01001000’	Binary Signed (ACCUM parameter only)
BX’C8’	Binary Exclusive (REPL parameter only new-data)
I’+147’	Integer (binary) data
IL2’+1’	Integer data length

To create an OR condition, separate data strings with commas. For example: C'ABC,123' The comma creates the OR condition, ABC or 123.

To include special characters, such as commas and quotes, as data, use double quotes. For example: C"ABC,123" The comma is treated as data.

Japanese DBCS Data

DBCS and single byte Katakana data is accepted as data element values. File-AID removes leading or trailing shift characters from DBCS data unless the value is enclosed in double quotes. When the KANA install option is specified for the Character Set Table in the Batch Product Option Variables, C (Character) and T (Text) identifiers are both treated as case-sensitive C (Character) data.

Operator-data-type

The following operator-data-types are valid:

EQP	Equal packed
NEP	Not equal packed
EQN	Equal numeric
NEN	Not equal numeric.

Duplication Factor (dupl)

A duplication factor shortens the notation of a data string. For example: C'123123' is the same as 2C'123'.