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SELECT and EXCLUDE Rule #4

VTOCs, and catalogs are not considered user data sets, and so are never processed unless specifically selected by SELECT VTOCS and SELECT CATALOGS=.

Consistent with rule 2 previous, if you specify SELECT VTOCS or SELECT CATALOGS= and you want to also process regular data sets as well, you must also supply a SELECT DSNAMES=/ command.

For example,

SCAN REALVOLS

SELECT CATALOGS=/

BACKUP

will back up only your catalogs, but,

SCAN REALVOLS

SELECT CATALOGS=/
SELECT VTOCS
SELECT DSNAMES=/

BACKUP

will back up your catalogs, VTOCs and data sets.