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Building Lists from Existing Items

Each list type has its own Build List command, which allows you to build a list from an existing collection of items. For example:

YBLDOBJLST OBJ(QGPL/FRED*) OBJTYPE(*ALL)  OBJLST(QTEMP/FRED)

Once the list has been built, the list entries are independent of the items to which they refer. So, for example, an entry will remain in the list even if the corresponding item has been deleted.

For example to use the Build Object List command (YBLDOBJLST) to build a list of all objects that are in library QGPL and whose names begin with the letters FR, see the following diagram: