esmie moo wrote: >Good Morning Gentle Readers,
Morning? ;-D It is now 18:45 (SAST time) and am now busy breaking my favourite z toy, hehehe. ;-D >IDC3203I ITEM 'BAST.PROM1.*.*.*.*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS Seemed to be WAD, after reading this in 'PREFACE.5.3 How to code subparameters' in 'DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs': Use an asterisk to replace a qualifier to indicate a generic command with certain commands. 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. The following examples show you how to use an asterisk for a generic name: A.* A.*.C The following examples are not acceptable ways to use a generic name: A.*.* A.B* *.B.C >Does this mean that IDCAMS will only accept a WILDCARD for the last qualifier? No, but see above quote. HTH! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
