John Dawes wrote: >Can anybody tell me how SMS differentiates between a filter list for DASD and a filter list for datasets? For >example, in the following code how does SMS know that it is a filter for dasd: > > FILTLIST VOL_BANC INCLUDE(APPG*,PROM*)
A filter list is just a list of possible values that you want to test the value of a variable against. Assuming the above filter list values are volser patterns, you could do: IF &ANYVOL = APPG* OR &ANYVOL = PROM* . . . or you could do: IF &ANYVOL = &VOL_BANC . . . If the above filter list contains the first node (HLQ) of datasets, you could do: IF &HLQ = &VOL_BANC . . . If I am only testing for one or two possible values in a variable, I will likely use the first IF statement above. If I am testing for three or more possible values, I use a filter list. Regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
