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Operations Performed Against the Distribution Specifications

The following table describes the operations performed against the distribution specifications for combinations of parameters and functions. Insertion and deletion immediately affect the sequencing of the distribution specifications and also affect the sequencing of subsequent operations.

Parameter

Blank Function

U Function

DD Function

DENTNO

Not applicable; DISTID required for addition

Updates DISTID at entry number

Deletes DISTID at entry number

DENTNO and DISTID

Adds DISTID at entry number

Updates DISTID at entry number

Deletes DISTID at entry number
DISTID ignored

DRELNO and ODISTID

Not applicable; DISTID required for addition

Updates relative occurrence of ODISTID

Deletes relative occurrence of ODISTID

DRELNO, ODISTID, and DISTID

Adds DISTID
after the relative occurrence of ODISTID

Updates/renames relative occurrence of ODISTID; renames if DISTID
is not equal to ODISTID

Deletes relative occurrence of ODISTID;
DISTID is ignored

DRELNO and DISTID

Adds DISTID
after the relative occurrence of DISTID

Updates the relative occurrence of DISTID

Deletes the relative occurrence of DISTID

ODISTID and DISTID

Adds DISTID
after the first occurrence of ODISTID

Updates/renames all occurrences of ODISTID;
renames if DISTID is not equal to ODISTID

Deletes all occurrences of DISTID

DISTID

Adds DISTID to the end of DISTID specifications

Updates all occurrences of DISTID

Deletes all occurrences of DISTID

DENTNO, DRELNO, ODISTID, and DISTID not specified

Not applicable

Updates first DISTID entry

Deletes all DISTID specifications