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4.4.4.5.5 Exclude List

When the Generate Deletes option is specified for execution,
there may be files or formats marked for deletion that the
data center may not want to delete. These may be
user-generated files and formats or files being saved for
archival purposes.

To address this issue, an exclude list has been provided.
Files listed in the exclude list will not be deleted when
the DBHDELET program is executed.

The exclude list resides in prefix.MICS.PARMS(DBHEXCL) and
can be edited directly or via the Database Health Check
Utility options panel.

The following statements are supported:

DDNAME ddname member...
TIMESPAN timespan member...
FORMAT libname catalog format...

where:

DDNAME      Excludes members in the specified DDNAME.

TIMESPAN    Excludes members in all DDNAMES of a split
            timespan.  For example, specifying timespan
            DETAIL with exclude files in DETAIL, DETAIL1, and
            so on.

FORMAT      Excludes formats.  Note that formats in the
            MICSFMTS catalog are not eligible for deletion,
            therefore excludes do not need to be entered for
            the MICSFMTS catalogs.

ddname      Is the DDNAME containing the members to be
            excluded.

timespan    Is the timespan containing the members to be
            excluded.  This value can be either DETAIL, DAYS,
            WEEKS, MONTHS, or YEARS.

member      Is the member name to be excluded from deletion.
            Members can be either specific or generic.
            Generic members end in a colon (:). For example,
            BATJOB: will exclude all members starting with
            BATJOB.

Comments start with an * in column 1.

Note: No validation of the syntax is done during edit.

The following are example exclude list statements:

DDNAME DAYS BATJOB:
TIMESPAN WEEKS ACTLGR01