<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="reference" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="OBJ parameter" /> <meta name="abstract" content="The object (OBJ) parameter specifies the names of one or more objects affected by the command in which this parameter is used." /> <meta name="description" content="The object (OBJ) parameter specifies the names of one or more objects affected by the command in which this parameter is used." /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbam6expand.htm" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbam6pathnames.htm" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rbam6objexpand" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>OBJ parameter</title> </head> <body id="rbam6objexpand"><a name="rbam6objexpand"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">OBJ parameter</h1> <div><p>The object (OBJ) parameter specifies the names of one or more objects affected by the command in which this parameter is used.</p> <div class="section"><p> If the OBJ parameter identifies objects that must exist in an i5/OS™ library, all of the objects must be in one of the following, depending upon which command is used:</p> <ul><li>the library specified in the LIB parameter,</li> <li>the SAVLIB parameter,</li> <li>the library qualifier in the OBJ parameter,</li> <li>or the library part of the path name in the OBJ parameter</li> </ul> <p>On some commands, the generic name of a group of objects can be specified. To form a generic name, add an asterisk (*) after the last character in the common group of characters; for example, ABC*. If an * is not included with the name, the system assumes that the name is a complete object name.</p> </div> <div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Values allowed</h4><p>Depending on the command, the following types of values can be specified on the OBJ parameter:</p> <ul><li>*ALL</li> <li>Simple object name</li> <li>Qualified object name</li> <li>Generic object name</li> <li>Qualified generic object name</li> <li>Path name</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbam6expand.htm" title="This section contains the expanded descriptions of some of the parameters commonly used in the CL commands.">Commonly used parameters</a></div> </div> <div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br /> <div><a href="rbam6pathnames.htm" title="A path name is a character string that can be used to locate objects in the integrated file system.">Path names (*PNAME)</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>