Jim, > I have been struggling with a way to use wildcards as a means of not having > to know all dataset names that may be created within a day's time. I know <snip> I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do but I would use dcollect to gather information on dasd datasets and extract similar data from your tape management product if I wanted to generate a list of datasets created yesterday or whatever date. Regards, John
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