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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS SMS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 25, 2022

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Wild card/s for numeric, alpha characters

Currently there are only *(asterisk) and %(percent) symbols for wild carding DSN (dataset names) in the ACS routines. To optimize/simplify ACS routine coding, we need wild cards for numeric, alpha characters instead of just % for specific fixed position in the DSN. The %(percent) wild card represents all valid character on that specific position & does neither qualify for alpha nor numeric.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 10, 2022

    Yes, thanks. we can add these wild cards also for the &JOBNAME, &DD, &PGM as well. but the urgent requirement for us here is on our site for the &DSN. Other read only variables are most welcome for this functionality.

    I think to facilitate these enhancements, we can mimic the edit pattern format such a the p'@@####' which has been in ISPF edit for a while now.

    Thank you very much.

    Ed


  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 10, 2022

    Not just the &DSN variable but others such as &JOBNAME and &DD, &PGM etc it would be useful too.

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 26, 2022

    As an example for temp DSN, the DSN pattern of SYS%%%%%.T%%%%%%.** would be used. Since all the % represents alpha & numerics, it wont narrow it down to numerics only. For these wildcarded characters to be narrowed down only to numerics we will need to code a combination/permutation of 10x11 lines. such as

    SYS0%%%%.T%%%%%%

    SYS1%%%%.T%%%%%%

    SYS2%%%%.T%%%%%% , so on and so forth

    Just to illustrate, this is just using temp DSN as an example. instead of coding 110 DSN patterns we just need to code only one desired DSN pattern. Thanks, Ed

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