Places one or more elements or groups in the specified group or
groups.
Format:
INSERT ELEMENT element-expression group-expression "remark"
1 – Restrictions
o You cannot insert an element into a group that has read-only
access.
o You cannot insert an element into a group if the element
already belongs to the group.
o You cannot insert an element into a group in another library
(the element and group must be in the same library).
2 – Command Parameters
element-expression
Specifies one or more elements to be inserted into the group.
An element expression can be an element name, a group name, a
wildcard expression, or a list of these separated by commas.
group-expression
Specifies one or more groups into which the element or elements is
to be inserted. A group expression can be a group name, a wildcard
expression, or a list of these separated by commas.
remark
Specifies a character string to be logged in the history file
with this command, usually used to explain why the command was
entered. The remark is enclosed in quotation marks. If no remark
was entered, a null remark ("") is logged.
3 – Description
The INSERT ELEMENT command places one or more elements or groups
into one or more groups. The groups must already exist. When you
use the INSERT ELEMENT command with a group name, you insert the
contents of the group. For example, if you insert group A into
group B by using the INSERT ELEMENT command, group B will contain
the contents of group A at the time of the insertion transaction.
If the contents of group A change at a later time, the contents of
group B are not affected. To insert a group into another group,
use the INSERT GROUP command.
4 – Qualifiers
4.1 /CONFIRM
Controls whether CMS prompts you for confirmation before each
transaction.
When you specify /CONFIRM and run CMS in interactive mode, CMS
prompts you for confirmation. If you type YES, ALL, TRUE, or 1,
CMS executes the transaction. If you type NO, QUIT, FALSE, 0,
or press RETURN or CTRL/Z, no action is performed. If you type
any other character, CMS continues to prompt until you type an
acceptable response.
CMS does not prompt for confirmation in batch mode.
4.2 /IF_ABSENT
Directs CMS to insert the element only if the group does not
already contain that element. If the element already belongs to
the group, CMS takes no action and does not return an error.
4.3 /LOG (D)
Controls whether CMS displays success and informational messages
on the default output device. By default, if the command executes
successfully, CMS displays a success message. If you specify
/NOLOG, success and informational messages are suppressed. Any
warning, error, or fatal error messages are displayed regardless
of whether /LOG or /NOLOG is specified.
4.4 /OCCLUDE[=option,...]
Controls whether CMS selects the first instance of the specified
object, or all instances of the specified object in the library
search list. The options field contains one or more keywords
associated with the name of the object. The options field can
contain the following keywords:
ALL--equivalent to (ELEMENT, GROUP)
ELEMENT (D)
NOELEMENT
GROUP (D)
NOGROUP
NONE--equivalent to (NOELEMENT, NOGROUP)
You can specify either ALL or NONE, or any combination of the
[NO]ELEMENT and [NO]GROUP keywords.
By default, CMS performs occlusion for all objects; that is, CMS
selects only the first occurrence of a specified object.
5 – Examples
(1) CMS> INSERT ELEMENT INIT.FOR TIME_TST "for time tests"
%CMS-S-INSERTED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]INIT.FOR
inserted into DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]group TIME_TST
This command inserts the element INIT.FOR into the group named
TIME_TST.
(2) CMS> INSERT ELEMENT DBAS EXAMPLES "more examples for book"
%CMS-I-INSERTED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]ARTFIG.CXS
inserted into DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]group EXAMPLES
%CMS-I-INSERTED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]SNAKE.TXT
inserted into DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]group EXAMPLES
This command inserts the contents of group DBAS into group
EXAMPLES.