The IGNORE keyword allows a record format from an externally described file to be ignored. The external name of the record format to be ignored is specified as the parameter recformat. One or more record formats can be specified, separated by colons (:). The program runs as if the specified record format(s) did not exist. All other record formats contained in the file will be included.
When the IGNORE keyword is specified for a file, the INCLUDE keyword cannot be specified.
Remember that for a qualified file, the unqualified form of the record format name is used for the IGNORE keyword.