Hi.

I'm afraid I'm in a "can't see the forest because of the trees"
situation which probably has a very easy answer that I can't see.

I have a disk pack that I need to get a large subset of the datasets off
it as well as uncataloged.  Is there some way using IDCAMS or DFSMSdss
to accomplish this using wildcards so I don't have to list each dataset
separately?  IDCAMS apparently only allows me to use a single-qualifier
wildcard which won't do it.  

Unless somebody has a better idea as how to proceed here.  The situation
is that we have a training system here that is a clone of our
production.  On a semi-regular basis we are requested to refresh the
training system.  The process is to delete the training system datasets
then use DFSMSdss COPY to copy the datasets from production to training.
I have tried just using DFSMSdss COPY with REPlace but apparently the
REPlace parameter of DSS COPY doesn't work with the RENameUnconditional
because DSS complains about the output datasets already being there. 

I don't want to have to list all the datasets individually in IDCAMS
DELETE statements because that will be a maintenance nightmare.

Environment is z/OS 1.4. 

What am I missing?

Rex

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