Selection

Selection criteria are data sets or members that contain selection conditions. Use selection criteria to restrict your view of a data set or member according to conditions specified in the selection criteria.

Selection criteria are collections of selection conditions that are saved in a selection criteria data set or member for future reuse.

Selection conditions are the individual search terms in selection criteria data sets or members that are used to identify the specific records or members you seek. A selection condition consists of a field, an operator, and a literal, or the value to which the field is compared.

You can use CA File Master Plus to manage your selection criteria data sets and members. You can add and delete the selection criteria data sets and members you want to use. When you are performing some functions in the Eclipse UI, such as compare, you can specify selection conditions that identify the members on which to perform the function. You can specify the selection conditions by entering the conditions individually or by specifying a selection criteria that you have added to the selection view.

Use the Selection view to add and manage selection data sets and members. You can add selection criteria to the Selection view after adding one or more servers to the Eclipse UI. You can also specify selection criteria that have not already been added to the Selection view from within utility wizards, such as copy and compare.

Note: You can view the properties of any selection data set in your Selection view. To display selection properties, right-click a selection data set and select Properties.

This section contains the following topics:

Add Selection Criteria

Create Selection Criteria

Modify Layout Selection Conditions

Define Selection Conditions

Condition Specifications

Update Selection Criteria

Remove Selection Criteria