Some of the file management commands (COPY, ED, and DE) accept an item list. An item list indicates one or more items that are to be processed in the file. The first form of an item list is a string of item-IDs with each item-ID surrounded by single quotes or separated from the next item-ID by a space. (The use of quotation marks is optional if Attribute 9 of your Account Definition item in the SYSTEM Dictionary contains a Q.) An example of a list of three item-IDs is:
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'10118' '10119' '10121' |
A second form for specifying an item list is by an asterisk (*). It indicates that all items in the file are to be processed.
A third way to specify an item list is to generate a select-list before invoking the file management processor. The select-list is used as the item list for the command. The SELECT, SSELECT, QSELECT or GET-LIST commands can be used to make a select-list active. See the Using Select-lists section in the INFO/ACCESS Reference Guide for more information on working with select-lists.
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