| ACCESS Procedure Reference |
Drops the specified item so that it is no longer available for
selection.
| Optional statement |
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| Applies to: |
access descriptor or view descriptor
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DROP item-name <...
item-name-n>;
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The DROP statement drops the specified
item so that the item is no longer available for selection. When used in an
access descriptor, it prevents the specified item from being available to
a view descriptor. The DROP statement is used with the UPDATE statement in
a view descriptor.
You can specify as many items to be dropped as necessary
by using one DROP statement. You can identify items by their index number
or by their name or a quoted string, but you cannot mix index numbers and
names. If you drop a record or group, all the items in that record or group
are dropped.
The following arguments can appear in
the DROP statement:
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numeric-list
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is a list of index numbers, separated by
logical operators, that represent the item's place in the descriptor. You
can get the index number of an item by using the LIST statement described
later in this section.
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item-name
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is the name of the IMS item to be dropped
or a quoted string.
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