BY


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The BY keyword specifies additional filtering criteria for the data sets specified on the INCLUDE and EXCLUDE keywords. To be selected, a data set must satisfy this criteria.

For information about BY filtering, see Filtering by data set characteristics.

Note: You must use FILTERDD when you specify more than 255 entries on the INCLUDE, EXCLUDE, or BY keywords.