How to keep sub select from disqualifying a set of id's?

If I understand your question . . .

You are looking for items where curqty = 0 within a system. However, an item could be in more than one pocket. This seems a reasonable interpretation of "I need a list of itemid's where they are not anywhere in the parent "system" (given they still might be in pockets in other systems.".

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