I believe the wild card feature has been added in z/OS 1.11 a la DFSMS.
*, **,....

<snip>
Dataset that I really don't care about....

T05.AGC.ZAG088C.AGCYLST.SORT   


Test 1:

DEL T05.AGC*                                               
IDC3203I ITEM 'T05.AGC*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS    

Test 2:

DEL T05.AGC.*                       
IDC3012I ENTRY T05.AGC. NOT FOUND    

Test 3:

DEL T05.AGC.**                                                   
IDC3203I ITEM 'T05.AGC.**' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS        

Test 4:

DEL T05.AGC.*.*.*                                             
IDC3203I ITEM 'T05.AGC.*.*.*' DOES NOT ADHERE TO RESTRICTIONS  

Test 5:

DEL T05.AGC.ZAG088C.AGCYLST.*                          
IDC0550I ENTRY (A) T05.AGC.ZAG088C.AGCYLST.SORT DELETED
</snip>

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