It's an odd omission, certainly.

However, if you don't absolutely have to use DFSMSdss, DFSMShsm *does*
allow wildcards and will backup files in a directory subtree. Available in
z/OS 2.3 with PTFs or in the base from 2.4 onwards. Andrew Wilt of IBM did
a very complete presentation at the last GSE virtual conference on the
topic.

Regards

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 20:07, Michael Babcock <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree.  Not being able to recurse down into the directory structure makes
> it less than useful unless you are only backing up a couple of files.
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:43 PM Mark Jacobs <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Yes, making it much less useful than it could be.
> >
> > Mark Jacobs
> >
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> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Thursday, August 11th, 2022 at 1:23 PM, Michael Babcock <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Sorry to keep posting. The 2.5 doc also states that if a pathname
> > resolves
> > > to a directory, only the attributes for the directory are processed.
> None
> > > of its members are processed. Recursion is not supported.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 12:14 PM Michael Babcock [email protected]
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > According to z/OS 2.4 EF086028 is:
> > > >
> > > > “A required name entry in a directory was not found”.
> > > >
> > > > And I’m looking at the 2.5 doc I have, it says “DFSMSdss does not
> > support
> > > > the use of UNIX wildcard characters” and in a note says “DFSMSdss
> does
> > not
> > > > provide wildcard support when processing UNIX files”
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:59 AM Michael Babcock
> [email protected]
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is the case sensitivity correct for the working directory? And is
> the
> > > > > source directory a subdirectory of the working directory?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 7:39 AM Mark Jacobs <
> > > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I'm trying to use ADRDSSU to backup a directory and all files and
> > > > > > subdirectories under it. Unless I'm missing something it doesn't
> > look like
> > > > > > it's supported.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > DUMP PATH(INC('sourcedir')) WORKINGDIRECTORY('/service')
> > OUTDD(OUTDD)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ADRDSSU is only backing up the directory itself, nothing under
> it.
> > > > > >
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