<?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="task" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Define a simple list" /> <meta name="abstract" content="A simple list can accept one or more values of the type specified by the parameter." /> <meta name="description" content="A simple list can accept one or more values of the type specified by the parameter." /> <meta name="DC.subject" content="parameter value, list of, simple, simple list, defining, description, passing to CPP, element in list" /> <meta name="keywords" content="parameter value, list of, simple, simple list, defining, description, passing to CPP, element in list" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="dflst.htm" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="defslclhll.htm" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="slrx.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="dslst" /> <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>Define a simple list</title> </head> <body id="dslst"><a name="dslst"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">Define a simple list</h1> <div><p>A simple list can accept one or more values of the type specified by the parameter. </p> <div class="section"> <p>For example, if the parameter is for the user name, a simple list means that more than one user name can be specified on that parameter.</p> <pre>USER(JONES SMITH MILLER)</pre> <p>If a parameter's value is a simple list, you specify the maximum number of elements the list can accept using the MAX parameter on the PARM statement. For a simple list, no command definition statements other than the PARM statement need be specified.</p> <p>The following example defines a parameter USER for which the display station user can specify up to five user names (a simple list). </p> <pre>PARM KWD(USER) TYPE(*NAME) LEN(10) MIN(0) MAX(5) + SPCVAL(*ALL) DFT(*ALL)</pre> <p>The parameter is an optional parameter as specified by MIN(0) and the default value is *ALL as specified by DFT(*ALL).</p> <p>When the elements in a simple list are passed to the command processing program, the format varies depending on whether you are using CL or HLL, or REXX. </p> </div> </div> <div> <ul class="ullinks"> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="defslclhll.htm">Use CL or HLL for simple lists</a></strong><br /> This describes the format in which elements in a simple list are passed when a command is run using CL or a high-level language.</li> <li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="slrx.htm">Use REXX for simple lists</a></strong><br /> This describes the format in which elements in a simple list are passed when a command is run using REXX.</li> </ul> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="dflst.htm" title="You can define a parameter to accept a list of values instead of just a single value.">Define lists for parameters</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>