You can use the asterisk wildcard to direct the MODIFY command to more than one job or started task. The asterisk indicates that a MODIFY command applies to all jobs or started tasks that match a leading character string.
F R1*,00
F WX*.R1*,00
When you specify asterisks with device numbers, the system assumes that the device numbers are four digits long. For example, /13* would match on 1301, 1302, and so on, but would not match on 13C.
F WX*.*,00
If you were to remove the WX characters from the above command, it would not be valid. You cannot specify *.* without a leading character string on the jobname parameter, identifier parameter, or both.
The following figures illustrate how asterisk notation works in MODIFY commands. Table 1 shows examples of START commands that are used to start jobs. Columns three and four show the associated jobnames and identifiers.
Job Number | START Command | Jobname | Identifier |
---|---|---|---|
1 | START YZ | YZ | YZ |
2 | START WX.YZ | WX | YZ |
3 | START WX.YZ1 | WX | YZ1 |
4 | START WX1.YZ1 | WX1 | YZ1 |
5 | START WX, JOBNAME =WX1 | WX1 | WX1 |
6 | START WX, JOBNAME =WX2 | WX2 | WX2 |
7 | START WX, JOBNAME =YZ | YZ | YZ |
8 | START Q.YZ3 | Q | YZ3 |
9 | START WX.R1 | WX | R1 |
10 | START WX, JOBNAME =YZ4 | YZ4 | YZ4 |
Table 2 shows examples of MODIFY commands. The numbers in the second column indicate to which jobs in Table 1 each MODIFY command applies.
MODIFY Command | Affected Jobs |
---|---|
F WX.YZ,parameters | 2 |
F WX.YZ*,parameters | 2, 3 |
F YZ.*,parameters | 1, 7 |
F WX*,parameters | 5, 6 |
F YZ*,parameters | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 |
F WX*.YZ,parameters | 2 |
F WX*.YZ*,parameters | 2, 3, 4 |
F *.YZ*,parameters | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 |
F *.YZ,parameters | 1, 2, 7 |
F WX*.*,parameters | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 |
F WX.*,parameters | 2, 3, 9 |