Extract Utility User's Guide - Supra - Cincom

Considerations for element♦♦♦If you code an element name in the argument, you must also code it in theELEMENT statement unless you code ELEMENT (ALL).You cannot code a null element list in the CRITERIA argument.If you name an element in the CRITERIA argument, it must be in all therecords you want extracted from the file.Options for operatorValid operators are as follows:.EQ.Equal.NE.Not equal.GT.Greater than.LT.Less than.GE.Greater than or equal to.LE.Less than or equal toConsideration for operatorYou must code a period before and after the Boolean operator. Only oneoperator may be specified.Format for datavalueAny valid EBCDIC value on z/OS, or ASCII value on OpenVMS. You can code theactual hexadecimal representation of any value of any data type in your UCLstatement. You must put a period before data value and “END.” after it.Considerations for datavalue♦♦♦You must make data values the same length as the element lengths in theelement list.Do not put spaces or any other separator between data values.Your data may cross input line boundaries if necessary. You must stop incolumn 72 and continue on the next line in column 1. (If you put data incolumns 73–80, it is lost.)Extract Utility User's Guide, P25-9513-03 42Chapter: 5. Coding the Extract functionSection: Coding the UCL for the Extract function