/MATERIAL=(path-name[,...]) Specifies one or more locations in which the utility can search for product material files to include in the software product kit. Material files represent the output of the producer's software engineering process, that is, all files that make up the software product, including any command procedures that might be used during installation. Note that the location of the PDF and PTF are not specified with the /MATERIAL qualifier. See the /SOURCE qualifier for more information. This is a required qualifier for the PRODUCT PACKAGE command. Parentheses (()) are optional only when you specify a single path name. They are required when you specify multiple path names. The format for path-name is: device-name:[directory-name] You can specify path-name as a: Specific Only one directory is searched. directory Wildcard The directory name includes one or more of the directory wildcard characters asterisk (*), percent sign (%), or ellipsis (...). All directories that satisfy the wildcard specification are searched. Root A period (.) following the directory name directory indicates a root directory specification. For example, TEST$:[ABC.FT2.] is combined with the relative file specification from the FILE statement in the PDF to locate the file during packaging. When the path-name contains a root directory, the utility appends the relative file specification from the FILE statement in the PDF to the root directory to determine where to find the file. However, when either a specific directory or a wildcard directory is used in the path-name, the relative file specification from the FILE statement is not used to find the file. Instead, the directory as specified in the /MATERIAL qualifier is used to search for the file. Note that when you use either a wildcard directory or a list of path names, if files in different directories have the same name, only the first file in the search path is packaged in the kit. As a result, the same file is packaged each time a FILE statement refers to the file name because the relative file specification is not used to identify the file uniquely. Therefore, if your product has different files with the same name in different directories, you must use the root directory form of the path- name to package these files correctly. In general, using a specific directory or a root directory is more efficient than a wildcard directory. When packaging a product that contains hundreds of files, you might notice a significant difference in processing time, depending on the method you use to specify the path name. The choice of material path name does not affect the time required to install the kit.