On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:39:14 -0700, John Dawes <jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>Is there a difference between the two :
>ISP.PROFILE.*
>ISP.PROFILE.**
> 
>I ran a few tests and I find that they give the same results.  If my 
>understanding is correct about WILD CARDS the * or ** are the same when there 
>are no other >HLQs after it.  Am I right?

If you were asking in the context of RACF data set profiles, then ** would 
match any number of qualifiers, including 0, whereas * would match only 1 or 
more. So, ISP.PROFILE.** would also match the 2-qualifier name ISP.PROFILE 
which ISP.PROFILE.* would not match.

I do not know if that's true in other contexts, though, nor which context you 
were asking about.

-- 
Walt Farrell
IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design

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