SELECT: Listing only those data set or volume entries that meet selection criteria

Explanation: SELECT, along with its subparameters, is used to specify that only selected entries are listed. SELECT and each of its subparameters is optional. Refer to the syntax diagrams at the beginning of this topic for the recommended use of SELECT and its subparameters.

The optional subparameters of the SELECT parameter are listed in alphabetical order and can be found at the following locations:
Subparameter See
ACTIVE and RETAINDAYS SELECT (ACTIVE and RETAINDAYS): Displaying information about active and retained backup copies
AGE SELECT (AGE): Specifying data set use by age
ALTERNATEVOLUME and NOALTERNATEVOLUME SELECT (ALTERNATEVOLUME and NOALTERNATEVOLUME): Listing tape volumes that have alternate tape volumes
AVAILABLE SELECT (AVAILABLE): Listing available dump volumes for dump output
CAPACITYMODE SELECT (CAPACITYMODE): Identifying tape volumes by their ability to use available tape capacity
CONNECTED and NOTCONNECTED SELECT (CONNECTED and NOTCONNECTED): List volumes that contain spanning data sets
DISASTERALTERNATEVOLUMES SELECT (DISASTERALTERNATEVOLUMES): Listing tape volumes that have disaster alternate volumes
DUMPCLASS SELECT (DUMPCLASS)
EFMT1, EFMT2, EEFMT2, EFMT3, EEFMT3, EFMT4, EEFMT4, ENCRYPTED, and NOTENCRYPTED SELECT (EFMT1, EFMT2, EEFMT2, EFMT3, EEFMT3, EFMT4, EEFMT4, ENCRYPTED, and NOTENCRYPTED): Recording format
EMPTY, FULL, NOTFULL, ASSOCIATED, NOTASSOCIATED, and RECYCLETAKEAWAY SELECT (EMPTY, FULL, NOTFULL, ASSOCIATED, NOTASSOCIATED, ERRORALTERNATE, and RECYCLETAKEAWAY): Identifying tape volume capacity
ERRORALTERNATE SELECT (EMPTY, FULL, NOTFULL, ASSOCIATED, NOTASSOCIATED, ERRORALTERNATE, and RECYCLETAKEAWAY): Identifying tape volume capacity
EXCESSIVEVOLUMES SELECT (EXCESSIVEVOLUMES): Listing volumes with data sets spanning four or more volumes
EXPIRED SELECT (EXPIRED): Listing expired dump volumes
FAILEDCREATE SELECT (FAILEDCREATE): Listing all tape volumes that have incomplete data set information saved in the OCDS TTOC record
FAILEDRECYCLE SELECT (FAILEDRECYCLE): Listing only those volumes that have failed recycle
FASTREPLICATIONSTATE, DUMPSTATE, INCOMPLETERECOVERY and NONPREFERREDFRVOLS SELECT (DUMPSTATE, FASTREPLICATIONSTATE, INCOMPLETERECOVERY, and NONPREFERREDFRVOLS): Listing specific information about copy pools
LIBRARY and NOLIBRARY SELECT (LIBRARY and NOLIBRARY): Listing tape volume library status
MIGRATIONLEVEL1, MIGRATIONLEVEL2, VOLUME, BACKUP, and BOTH SELECT (MIGRATIONLEVEL1, MIGRATIONLEVEL2, VOLUME(volser), BACKUP, and BOTH): Requesting specific information for volumes
MULTIPLEVOLUME SELECT (MULTIPLEVOLUME): Listing multiple-volume non-VSAM data sets from backup or dump VTOC copy data sets
NORETENTIONLIMIT SELECT (NORETENTIONLIMIT): List dump volumes with no retention period
OVERFLOW and NOOVERFLOW SELECT (OVERFLOW and NOOVERFLOW): List overflow or non-overflow ML1 volumes
RECALLTAKEAWAY SELECT (RECALLTAKEAWAY): Listing ML2 volumes taken away by recall or ABACKUP functions
RESUMEAUDIT SELECT (RESUMEAUDIT): Listing tape volumes that are capable of being resumed after AUDIT MEDIACONTROLS was interruped
SMALLDATASETPACKING and NOSMALLDATASETPACKING SELECT (SMALLDATASETPACKING and NOSMALLDATASETPACKING): Specifying whether data sets have migrated to SDSP
UNAVAILABLE SELECT (UNAVAILABLE): Listing dump volumes with invalid contents
UNEXPIRED SELECT (UNEXPIRED): Listing dump volumes that have not reached their expiration date
VSAM SELECT (VSAM): Specifying the data set organization

Defaults: None.