DFSMSdss filtering—choosing the data sets you want processed
This section is divided into the following subsections:
- How DFSMSdss filters data sets describes how DFSMSdss filters data sets by data set name and by data set characteristic.
- Filtering by data set names explains how to specify fully and partially qualified data set names for filtering. This section includes rules for spelling out qualifiers and examples of qualified data set names.
- Filtering by data set characteristics lists the data set characteristics on which filtering can be done.
- Standard catalog search order identifies the standard order in which DFSMSdss searches for a data set name.
See Data set attributes for information about DFSMSdss and the way that it determines individual data set attributes.