Hi Esmie, Peter said... " The restriction is to one wildcarded qualifier."
as in.... USERID.*.CNTL or USERID.TEST.* or USERID.ABC.DEF.GHI.*.CNTL I believe that USERID.T*.CNTL may also work. The IDCAMS parser is not the same as for DF/DSS and the qualifier.** does not do what you want. IDCAMS is an old tool and a single * is all that's allowed...anywhere within the dsname. Dan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN