Partially Qualifying DASD Volume Names

Use an asterisk sign as a global file-name character for zero or more characters.

For example, when you specify the following partial volume serial number, ISMF lists all volume names whose first three characters are SYS.

Volume Serial Number ===> SYS*

The list might include SYS1, SYSA, SYS, or SYSLIB.

In a later discussion of selection entry panels (starting with Generating a Data Set List), the instructions for each field explain how the global file-name characters work in different situations.