>From the AMS for Catalogs manual: "However, an asterisk cannot be used as the high level (leftmost) qualifier, as a partial replacement for a qualifier, or to replace more than one qualifier."
Bart -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IDCAMS ODDITY? Good Morning Gentle Readers, I am not sure if it is a fluke. I am trying to alter the MGMTCLASS of a ton of dsns (SMS ACS for the MGMTCLAS has been changed) which are migrated or on DASD. The dsns have 6 qualifiers. When I try this ALTER command : ALTER BAST.PROM1.*.*.*.* - MGMTCLAS (MNOBK2) I get the following error message: IDC3203I ITEM 'BAST.PROM1.*.*.*.*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS 12 However, I tried the following and it worked: ALTER BAST.PROM1.PROD.LIV.JCLLIB2.* - MGMTCLAS (MNOBK5) IDC0531I ENTRY BAST.PROM1.PROD.LIV.JCLLIB2.D12191 ALTERED IDC0531I ENTRY BAST.PROM1.PROD.LIV.JCLLIB2.D12228 ALTERED IDC0531I ENTRY BAST.PROM1.PROD.LIV.JCLLIB2.VER291 ALTERED IDC0531I ENTRY BAST.PROM1.PROD.LIV.JCLLIB2.VER367 ALTERED Does this mean that IDCAMS will only accept a WILDCARD for the last qualifier? Just curious if anybody has encountered this. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN