Condition Specifications

The following list shows some sample condition specifications.

• MEMBER
  Specifies that subsequent selection condition apply to PDS member selection only. This parameter and subsequent selection criteria are ignored if specified for non-PDS data sets.

• RECORD
  Specifies that subsequent selection condition apply to record selection only.

• 101 = C'NY'
  Position 101 for a length of 2 equals 'NY'

• 1(3) = C'001'
  Position 1 for a length of 3 equals '001'

• C'TEXAS'
  Character string 'TEXAS' anywhere in the record

• 'TEXAS'
  Character string 'TEXAS' anywhere in the record

• 1(3) = C'001' & 101 = C'NY'
  Compound condition

• 10(4) EQP
  Pos 10 for a length of 4 is a valid packed value

• 80 = C'NY' C'NJ' C'MA'
  Position 80 equals one of the three values

• 80 = C'NY,NJ,MA'
  Position 80 equals one of the same three values

• 100(2) = P'0,1,999'
  Two-byte packed field equals one of three values

• 100 = C"100,00"
  Position 100 for a length of 7 equals '100,000'
  Note: Quotes are required when the search string contains a comma.

• 82(2) > 84
  Compare position 82 to position 84 for length of 2

• 101(20) CO C'NEW YORK'
  Looks for the character string in columns 101-120

• INLIM(5000)
  Stop reading/selecting after reading 5000 records.

• SELLIM(1000)
  Only select 1000 records based on selection criteria.

• STARTKEY='56789'
  Select keyed VSAM records starting with key '56789'

• STARTREC=1001
  Select records starting with record number 1001

• STARTRBA=X'1FD8'
  Select records starting with the record with RBA x'1FD8'