INCLUDE Statements

INCLUDE statements specify selection criteria for members to be processed by the utility. Multiple INCLUDE statements can be specified.

The format of an INCLUDE statement is as follows:

where:

• dsname is the dataset name (or mask) of the datasets to be processed by the utility.
• memname is the member name (or mask) of the members to be processed by the utility.

Each specified value must be either a full name (dataset name or member name) or a valid mask (that is, a name prefix followed by an asterisk). An asterisk can appear in a dataset name mask only after a period (that is, you must specify complete qualifiers).

Any number of INCLUDE statements can be specified. Multiple INCLUDE statements can overlap (that is, a given dataset can match the selection criteria in more than one INCLUDE statement). INCLUDE statements that specify similar criteria can be used to select multiple sets of members from the same dataset. Each member selected using INCLUDE criteria is processed only once, regardless of the number of INCLUDE statements that match the member.