Rule selection fields

The rules which are used in the job processing are selected based on the following selection fields:

• environment - can be optionally assigned to rules, limiting the processing to only those rules in which the particular environment name is specified.
• common selection fields - common to all the various ON statements, such as JOBNAME, LIBRARY, and MEMBER.
• event selection fields - specific to particular ON statements, such as CLASS, USER, and ACCOUNT.

The wild card characters, such as the masks using asterisk (*) and the question mark (?), which are commonly used in IOA, can be used in the selection fields.

If a selection field is left blank it is equivalent to specifying an asterisk, and that field will be eliminated from the selection process.