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Field 2 — INCLUDE and EXCLUDE Specification

This field is a one-character field indicating the specification type: I for include, E for exclude. It must follow the user ID field and be separated before and after with at least one space.

Entries are specified to allow users to process certain options (include) or to disallow users from using options (exclude).

This can be useful by specifying an include statement for a user indicating that all options are allowed. Then by specifying an exclude statement for one option, the user is allowed access to all options except one. This prevents the need to specify every function that a user can use.

Any number of statements can be specified for a user or group of users. One or more include statements must be specified to allow a user access to a function. Any exclude statement for a function overrides an include statement for it; that is, an exclude statement applied to all user IDs will deny access to the specified function regardless of any other include statements.