Esmie, As best I can see, neither of the examples you show below will work. At least as of z/OS 1.10, the double asterisk was not a valid form of wildcarding dataset names within IDCAMS. In addition, the single asterisk can only be used in place of a single qualifier, and you can only have one asterisk in a DSN. While other tools allow the double asterisk, IDCAMS does not.
So you could do an A.B.*.D, but you cannot do A.*.*.D. HTH Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IDCAMS ODDITY? Now I am totally confused. Peter, am I understanding you correctly that if I had coded BAST.PROM1.** the alter command would have worked? Elardus, are you saying that if I coded BAST.*.*.*.*.D12191 the alter would have worked? Sorry for sounding like a donkey but could you clear it up? Thanks. ________________________________ From: "Farley, Peter x23353" <peter.far...@broadridge.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:57:42 PM Subject: Re: IDCAMS ODDITY? John, Actually that's not true. The restriction is to one wildcarded qualifier. It does not necessarily need to be the last. The OP's original example BAST.PROM1.*.*.*.* Is correctly coded as BAST.PROM1.** But AFAIK this is just as legal: BAST.PROM1.**.D12191 Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IDCAMS ODDITY? WAD. You can only "wild card" the last node with IDCAMS. I have other utilities from other vendors which can do otherwise. Such a Co:Z Data Set Pipes' "catsearch", which is a UNIX command. catsearch 'bast.prom1.**' |\ while read i;do tsocmd "alter $i mgmtclas(mnobk2)";done >From a UNIX shell which is properly set up. The alter can be left in lower >case because "tsocmd" automatically uppercases. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . 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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. 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