z/OS V1R6.0 DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs

VOLUME is a keyword that indicates that the value 25DATA is a volume serialnumber.A keyword parameter can have a set of subparameters. Subparameters follow thesame rules as parameter sets in general. When the subparameters are positional,the first subparameter is always required.Positional parameters and subparameters sometimes have lists of items. Unless thelist contains only one item, it must be enclosed in parentheses that can be precededand followed by blanks, commas, or comments. For example:DELETE(entryname [...])indicates that the list of entry names must be enclosed in parentheses if more thanone entry is to be deleted. If only one entry name is given, the parentheses are notrequired.An item in a list can be a parameter set itself. Each such item, as well as the list ofitems, is enclosed in parentheses. Given:OBJECTS((entryname NEWNAME (newname))...)the following are valid:OBJECTS -(ENTRY1 NEWNAME(NEWNAME1))Here, only one entry is to be renamed. The entry name and its new name areenclosed in parentheses.OBJECTS (-(ENTRY1 NEWNAME(NEWNAME1)) -(ENTRY2 NEWNAME(NEWNAME2)) -)Here, each entry name and its new name are enclosed in parentheses and theentire list is enclosed in parentheses.All parameters and subparameters must be separated from each other by one ormore separators (commas, blanks, or comments). There is one exception:parameters do not need to be separated from the closing parenthesis when theyimmediately follow a subparameter set already enclosed in parentheses.A value cannot have commas, semicolons, blanks, parentheses, or slashes unlessthe entire value is enclosed in single quotation marks. A single quotation mark in afield enclosed in single quotation marks must be coded as two single quotationmarks.The values you specify in the parameters can be surrounded by separators. Somevalues can be longer than a single record. When a value is longer than a singlerecord, you indicate that it is continued by coding a plus sign followed only byblanks or a comment. The first nonseparator character found in a record followingthe plus sign is treated as a continuation of the value.How to code subparametersYou can use decimal (n), hexadecimal (X'n'), or binary (B'n') form to defineparameters.These coding conventions apply to the subparameters in this section:About this documentxvii