I've used * and ** in 3.4 for the dsname level. >From User's Guide II:
1. If you enter a high-level qualifier of ’*’ or ’**’, ISPF displays a pop-up window to warn you that the search will be for all catalogs on the system and will take time. If there are many catalogs, this search could take a considerable amount of time. You can press Enter to continue the search, or you can enter Cancel or End from the pop-up window to cancel the search. Be aware that if you have mount authority, a catalog search with ’*’ or ’**’ as the high-level qualifier can require that volumes be mounted for the catalogs to be searched. 2. The ISPF Configuration table contains a selectable option, named DISALLOW_WILDCARDS_IN_HLQ, to disallow the use of the ’*’ or ’%’ in the high-level qualifier - Don Imbriale On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Mark Zelden <mzel...@flash.net> wrote: > > 3.4 doesn't allow * or **. > > No options with IDCAMS to list everything from all catalogs. > > The CSI is a good option, but since if you tell it to list all catalogs you > could > end up with a bunch of "dead" catalog entries. For example, a user catalog > that was previously a master from another system, or an alias for an HLQ > points to the "correct catalog" but maybe pointed to a different catalog at > one time and the entries weren't deleted or merged out. No one would > ever know about those entries to clean them up unless they looked for them. > (you can do this with CATSRCH from my web site: TSO %CATSRCH ** > > > If you did it with CSI and wrote intelligent code around it, then it would > be more accurate. For example, list the master catalog and the aliases, > then only list the HLQs in the catalogs that the aliases in the master > catalog > pointed to. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > mailto:mzel...@flash.net > Mark's MVS Utilities: > http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html<http://home.flash.net/%7Emzelden/mvsutil.html> > Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
