Lizette, Thanks very much for the info. I never tried using the NEWNAME, which I will. However, I am trying to ALTER the MANAGEMENT class and not trying to rename the dsn. Do you have any information for that?
--- On Sat, 12/4/10, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> Subject: Re: WILDCARDS - IDCAMS ALTER COMMAND To: [email protected] Received: Saturday, December 4, 2010, 1:49 AM > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
