> Good Morning Gentle Readers,
>
> Has anybody been able to ALTER the HLQ dsns of a MANAGEMENT class
> using wildcards for the IDCAMS command? I am able to delete dsns using
> wildcards HLQs.
>
> Here is my command that I am trying to issue:
>
> //IDCAMS EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=4M
> //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
> //SYSIN DD *
> ALTER 'IMSZ.ACBL*' -
> MGMTCLAS (NOMIG)
> /*
> I get the error message :
> IDC3203I ITEM 'IMSZ.ACBL*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS
> IDC3202I ABOVE TEXT BYPASSED UNTIL NEXT COMMAND. CONDITION CODE IS 12
>
> Can wildcards be used when performing ALTER commands?
>
> Thanks in advance.
If you goggle IDCAMS WILDCARDS, I came up with the following APAR from IBM
Using wildcards with IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME
Technote (FAQ)
Question
Using wildcards with IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME
User is attempting to change the HLQ (High Level Qualifier) on all datasets
starting with CICS to CICSA
CICS.SYSTEM
CICS.SYSTEM2
CICS.SYSTEM.PROD
CICS.SYSTEM.
Answer
Description:
Using wildcards with IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME
User is attempting to change the HLQ (High Level Qualifier) on
all datasets starting with CICS to CICSA
CICS.SYSTEM
CICS.SYSTEM2
CICS.SYSTEM.PROD
CICS.SYSTEM.TEST
Using the following ALTER job:
//NEWNAME EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=4M
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
//SYSIN DD *
ALTER CICS.* -
NEWNAME(CICSA.*)
/*
The results are:
CICSA.SYSTEM
CICSA.SYSTEM2
CICS.SYSTEM.PROD
CICS.SYSTEM.TEST
Only the datasets matching the level of qualification i.e 2 are
changed.
Resolution:
The generic in ALTER NEWNAME only replaces one qualifier not all
following qualifiers.
To ALTER the 3 level qualified datasets the following could be
coded:
ALTER CICS.SYSTEM.* -
NEWNAME(CICSA.SYSTEM.*)
The following will validly fail with :
ALTER CICS.*.* -
NEWNAME(CICSA.*.*)
IDC3203I ITEM 'CICS.*.*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS
A generic can be coded in the middle
ALTER CICS.*.TEST -
NEWNAME(CICSA.*.TEST1)
Does this answer your question?
Lizette
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