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Keywords

The following is a complete list of the valid keywords that are subordinate to the SELRECIF, AND, OR keywords.

• ACCUM
• CHANGE
• EDIT
• IF, AND, OR
• MOVE
• OUTLIM
• PADCHAR
• POSITION
• PRINTLIM
• REPLACE
• SELECT
• SELLIM
• SELRECIF, AND, OR
• SKIP
• STOP
• WRITE

Example 1

This example syntax overwrites record positions 8 and 9 with 03 if record field DOB-MONTH equals one of the character strings 'JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', 'APR', 'MAY', 'JUN', 'JUL', 'AUG', 'SEP', 'OCT', 'NOV' or 'DEC'. No other records are updated.

UPDATE,
  LAYOUTFILE(LAYOUT),
  SELRECIF(DOB-MONTH,EQ,C'JAN,FEB,MAR,APR,MAY,JUN,JUL,AUG,SEP,OCT,NOV,DEC'),
	REPLACE(8,C'03')

Example 2

This example syntax examines the packed-field for non-packed data, and copies those records to the outfile.

COPY,
  LAYOUTFILE(LAYOUT),
  SELRECIF(PACKED-FIELD,NEP)