On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:31:40 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:09:24 -0500, Chase, John wrote: >> >>Perhaps we have something misconfigured, but I've wondered why I must >>append an asterisk to a "prefix" value, say, to display all the CICS >>regions on the DA screen. If I enter "PRE CICS" I get a blank screen, >>but if I enter "PRE CICS*" I see all the CICSes that are running. Why >>isn't "CICS" treated as a "PREFIX" when I say it's a PREFIX? >> >>This is at z/OS 1.9 and earlier (back as far as I can remember). >> >I can remember back further. At one time, PREFIX was exactly that: >a prefix, with no wildcard characters supported, much less required. >At some point, SDSF extended the syntax to support wildcards, but >chose to overload "PREFIX", rather than provide a more suitable name, >such as "PATTERN". It was particularly jarring at that upgrade >boundary when "PREFIX USER" ceased to display anything except for >the TSO session of "USER". I needed to ask an expert to discover >that the novus ordo seclorum required "PREFIX USER*". But I believe >that constructs such as "PREFIX FOO*BAR*", and even counterintuitively >"PREFIX *A", are now possible. > You can have SDSF automatically append the * again. See APAR PK79932. There was also a discussion in IBM-MAIN about this a few months ago. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1PK79932 -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
