The quote from the manual came from 1.11. It may be as Barry has stated that at least one qualifier must be specified that is not just * or **.
- Don Imbriale On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm, what level are you running. Unless this changed in z/OS 1.12 > (and I don't think it did), it isn't allowed. I get a pop up warning > message: > > "In order to list catalog entries, you must specify at least one partial > qualifier. Any Dsname Level that contains only asterisks is invalid." > > In addition, help has this information: > > "When Dsname Level is specified, it defines the level qualifiers for > the data > set names to be included in the list. Qualifiers can be specified > fully, > partially or defaulted. At least one qualifier must be partially > specified. A > Dsname Level of '*' or '**' or any combination of '*' and '**' > qualifiers is > invalid. " > > > Your 2nd point I was not aware of. Thanks. I am still using the sample > ISRNOGEN for that. Since I don't want to look it up, can you (or anyone) > recall when that option was added (I'm running z/OS 1.11 now)? One > less usermod to install! BTW, when I just tested * and ** again in my > sandbox, I used a dummy ISRNOGEN (IEFBR14) in my TSOLIB instead of the > real one... otherwise I couldn't test any generic HLQs. > > Regards, > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > mailto:[email protected] > Mark's MVS Utilities: > http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html<http://home.flash.net/%7Emzelden/mvsutil.html> > Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > > > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:42:01 -0500, Don Imbriale <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >I've used * and ** in 3.4 for the dsname level. > > > >From User's Guide II: > > > >1. If you enter a high-level qualifier of ’*’ or ’**’, ISPF displays a > >pop-up window > >to warn you that the search will be for all catalogs on the system and > will > >take > >time. If there are many catalogs, this search could take a considerable > >amount > >of time. You can press Enter to continue the search, or you can enter > Cancel > >or > >End from the pop-up window to cancel the search. Be aware that if you have > >mount authority, a catalog search with ’*’ or ’**’ as the high-level > >qualifier can > >require that volumes be mounted for the catalogs to be searched. > >2. The ISPF Configuration table contains a selectable option, named > >DISALLOW_WILDCARDS_IN_HLQ, to disallow the use of the ’*’ or ’%’ in the > >high-level qualifier > > > >- Don Imbriale > > > >On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> 3.4 doesn't allow * or **. > >> > >> No options with IDCAMS to list everything from all catalogs. > >> > >> The CSI is a good option, but since if you tell it to list all catalogs > you > >> could > >> end up with a bunch of "dead" catalog entries. For example, a user > catalog > >> that was previously a master from another system, or an alias for an HLQ > >> points to the "correct catalog" but maybe pointed to a different catalog > at > >> one time and the entries weren't deleted or merged out. No one would > >> ever know about those entries to clean them up unless they looked for > them. > >> (you can do this with CATSRCH from my web site: TSO %CATSRCH ** > >> > >> > >> If you did it with CSI and wrote intelligent code around it, then it > would > >> be more accurate. For example, list the master catalog and the aliases, > >> then only list the HLQs in the catalogs that the aliases in the master > >> catalog > >> pointed to. > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
