Filter keywords

Use the filter keywords to select the operations to be modified from the list found by the identification keywords.

The following list describes the filter keywords:
RANGE(<yymmddhhmm> TO <yymmddhhmm>)
Limits the selection to the operations within the specified application input arrival range. The format is YYMMDDHHMM but if you omit it, the time 0000 is used as the “from” time and 2359 is used as the “to” time. You can specify open ended ranges; for example, RANGE(TO 091231) or RANGE(090101 TO), RANGE(090101) corresponds to RANGE(0901010000 TO 0901012359). You cannot use wildcards, but you can use relative dates when time the is not specified:
=
Current date
+n
Current date +n days
-n
Current date -n days
POSITION(EARLIEST|LATEST)
Determines where to start in the list of identified operations for processing. EARLIEST starts at the operation with the earliest Input Arrival date, LATEST starts with the latest. The number of operations that will be modified depends on the COUNT keyword. The default value is EARLIEST.
COUNT
Determines the number of operations to select for processing. The default is 1, therefore POSITION(EARLIEST) selects only the earliest operation it found within the RANGE, while POSITION(LATEST) only selects the latest. Any positive number selects that number of operations from the starting position included; if you specify a number higher than the number or records found matching the criteria, all matching operations are selected. A value of COUNT(0) selects however many operation are found matching the criteria.

A negative value selects however many operations are found, minus the number in count. For POSITION(EARLIEST), a negative count drops the latest entries off the list, for POSITION(LATEST) a negative count drops the earliest entries off the list. For example, POSITION(EARLIEST) COUNT(-1) selects all except the latest operation found; POSITION(LATEST) COUNT(-1) selects all except the earliest operation found.

Note:
  1. RANGE keywords are processed before POSITION and COUNT

    For example, you could find 20 operations, but the RANGE might filter that down to 10. POSITION will start at the earliest or latest operation within the 10, so at most you will be able to select 10 operations.

  2. MATCHTYP is not compatible with these commands due to the use of not equals comparators for handling multiple dependencies. This means that for user fields and special resource names, the asterisk (*) and percent sign (%) are considered wildcards if used in keywords, and use of comparator characters, such as =, ¬=, <, >, <= and >= at the end of a keyword, are considered as field comparators and not part of the field or resource name.