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Introduction

Library lists provide an easy way of controlling what objects a job can access. The i OS library list is a very simple, yet powerful concept, but it does have some limitations, most notably that a library list is transient. The library list lasts only for the duration of a job or until replaced by another list, and all of the libraries in a list must be specified every time the list is required. For batch jobs, only the complete specification of all the libraries in a list, or the addition or removal of a single library from a list is possible, although the libraries in a list are edited interactively. Toolkit provides the capability to edit library lists, store them away permanently under a given name, and then retrieve and use the lists.