On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:08:01 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 04:01:39 -0600, Bruce Hewson <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>I didn't know about the "*%" option.....the ISPF developers haven't blocked >>that the same way they block "*" and "**". >> >>I have been using "*.**" ever since that block went in when I need to do that >>sort of search. >> >>Regards >>Bruce Hewson >> > > >*.** gives me this error (z/OS 1.11): > >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| In order to list catalog entries, you must specify at least one partial | >| qualifier. Any Dsname Level that contains only asterisks is invalid. | >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > And if you have the DISALLOW_WILDCARDS_IN_HLQ = YES in the config table (which I rolling out now instead of using the sample ISRNOGEN thanks to this thread), this is the message you get for any type of generic use in the HLQ: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The ISPF configuration table has been set to disallow the use of wild cards | | in the high level qualifier. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ And to answer my own question from earlier in this thread (for the archives), that option came in all the way back at OS/390 2.10. So I could have stopped using the sample ISRNOGEN for over 10 releases now had I not missed that enhancement. The downside is, I can't use a dummy ISRNOGEN now to get around the restriction. The upside is, neither can anyone else (not that we have users savvy enough to figure that out). But that's why we have tools like ISMF (which is what I've always told the storage admins to use when they've complained about the ISRNOGEN exit and not being able to use a generic HLQ on 3.4) and the CSI (and my CATSRCH exec which uses it). 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 Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
