Information to Datasets to process

Choosing the first section, you can give the dataset or datasets processed in the following with path information, if necessary, in a direct way, where you can use the special character ‘?’ for any character and ’*’ for any group of characters in a dataset name (”wild-card information“) as usual in MS-DOS to choose many datasets (giving dataset in direct way).

Choosing the second section only possible in the “enlarged” version tells the program, you want to give a dataset in the following which itself covers dataset information with one dataset per line identifying datasets to process. I.e. you have prepared a dataset with dataset information of that datasets which shall be processed in the actual run.

In many cases you want to process all datasets of a directory or of a directory a n d all subdirectories of any level. This is possible by choosing the third section for datasets of exactly one directory and by choosing the fourth section for all datasets within a directory tree.

Special datasets of the actual program task and other excepted datasets are excluded form processing in any case.