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4 Modifiers
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What Is in This Section When you issue DSNM commands, you can specify modifiers to affect the scope or
output of the command. For some commands, you can also specify parameters, which
affect the action of the command.
This section discusses the types of modifiers and parameters used in DSNM
commands.
Modifiers Following are the types of modifiers used in DSNM commands:
Hierarchy modifier—indicates which objects are to be affected by the command
based on the subsystem object hierarchy.
State modifier—indicates that the command is to be applied only to those objects
in certain states.
Highlight modifier—limits the scope of the command to a subset of the objects
based on their attributes in the DSNM object database.
Error modifier—indicates the amount and type of information to be provided in
response to an error condition identified when a correctly entered command is
executed against specified objects
Response modifier—indicates the amount and type of information to be provided
in response to the STATUS and INQUIRE commands.
Each modifier is discussed in more detail later in this section. Section 2, “DSNM
Commands,” gives the syntax of DSNM commands, including the placement of
modifiers in DSNM commands.
Rules Governing
Modifiers
The following rules apply when specifying modifiers. Each rule is discussed later in
this section.
Modifiers can be specified in any order. If more than one value for the same
modifier is specified, only the last one applies.
All modifiers, except the hierarchy modifier, must be specified after the list of
object specifications. A hierarchy modifier can be specified as part of an object
specification or can be specified after the list of object specifications.
A hierarchy modifier that is included in an object specification must appear at the
end of the object specification and must be preceded by a space.
Each modifier in a DSNM command must be preceded by a comma, except a
hierarchy modifier that is part of an object specification. This means that modifiers
specified after a list of object specifications must be separated from the list by a
comma. If a hierarchy modifier is included as part of an object specification, it is
not preceded by a comma.
If you give an object specification its own hierarchy modifier, it overrides the
value of the hierarchy modifier specified outside the object specification.