If you could provide us with an example of what you are looking to do it would help.
z/OS has SYMBOLS, and there are ways to use UNIX. If you could show some details, it will help. In z/OS you can at a TIME Symbol that the operating system supports. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Rajesh Janakiraman > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 10:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: to use wildcard characters in JCl > > Dear Mates, > > If you have any idea about using wildcard characters in JCL, kindly let me > know. > > I need to get an extract file for every one hour and I need to add the job in > OPCA, > so that by using wildcard characters for every one hour the extract may get > genrated automatically. > > Please let me kow the detailed explanation i.e. wildcard characters that is > found in > JCL to describe a dataset. > > Thanks in advance. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN