Extracting a selected subset of records to create a test file
In Browsing a Data File you created temporary selection criteria and in Copying Selected PDS Members you learned about the Copy utility. In this section you learn how to create permanent selection criteria with the File-AID Selection utility (option 6). You then use the selection criteria in the File-AID Copy utility (option 3.3) to create test data by extracting a subset of the records of the sample inventory file (FASAMP.INVFILE) to a test file (FASAMP.INVFILE2).
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