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For almost every entry type there are policies to link 'child' entry types

These link panels are just the reverse of the WHERE USED policies of the child entry types. Here is an example for Application Groups with the policies to link Applications (APL) , Trigger (TRG) and Service Periods (SVP).

Figure 1. Policy Selection Panel

   ACTIONS  HELP                                                                
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                                 Policy Selection             Row 1 to 13 of 14 
 Command ===>                                                    SCROLL===> PAGE 
                                                                                
 Entry Type : ApplicationGroup      PolicyDB Name   : USER_PDB                  
 Entry Name : BASE_APPL             Enterprise Name : USER_ ENTERPRISE          
                                                                                
 Action      Policy Name          Policy Description                            
             ...                                          
             ...                                         
             APPLICATIONS         Select applications for system APG            
             TRIGGER              Select trigger                                
             SERVICE PERIOD       Select service period                         
             ...

When you select one of these policy items, a list of entry names is shown as in Figure 2.

Figure 2. Applications for ApplicationGroup Panel for System Application Groups

   COMMANDS  ACTIONS  VIEW  HELP
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 AOFGXC4E             Applications for ApplicationGroup      Row 1 to 13 of 106 
 Command ===>                                                   SCROLL===> PAGE
 
 Entry Type : ApplicationGroup      PolicyDB Name   : USER_PDB
 Entry Name : NET                   Enterprise Name : USER_ENTERPRISE
 
 Action      Status            Application
             SELECTED          CICSAR1
                               CPSMCMAS
                               CPSMWUI
                               CICS1FOR
                               CICSMAIN
                               CICS1TOR
                               DB21IRLM
                               DB21MSTR
                               DWH
             SELECTED          TCPIP
             SELECTED          VTAM
                               WBSRV

Entries which are already linked are shown with Status 'SELECTED'.

With action SELECT or ADD (or abbreviations S and A) the entries can be selected while with action REMOVE (or M) any selection can be reverted. It is also possible to make a single selection without scrolling via the command by entering the command SELECT or REMOVE with an entry name as parameter.

Usually multiple entries can be selected, but there are a few policies where only one linked entry is allowed, for example, the policy SERVICE PERIOD. For those policies always the last selection is taken. That means if an entry is already selected, and then another selection via the Action column is specified, then the indication 'SELECTED' for the already selected entry is removed automatically. And if multiple selections are specified in the Action column then the bottom selection is used.

Initially the displayed list is sorted alphabetically, but you can use the SORT command to get all selected entries to the top. The SORT command has the column name as parameter, so in the example above the command 'SORT STATUS' would move all selected applications to the top of the screen. The column can be abbreviated, so 'SORT S' would also move all selected names to the top, while 'SORT A' would show the applications again sorted alphabetically by name.

The SORT command is also available on the WHERE USED panels. On some of those panels, entries from different types are shown, for example, WHERE USED for Trigger shows Applications and ApplicationGroups. On these panels the command 'SORT T' would show the names sorted by Type and for each type sorted by name.