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z/OS DFSMS Managing Catalogs
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   VSAM.DATA.SET%
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET1
                        VSAM.DATA.SET2
       will not return:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET30
   VSAM.DATA.SET%%
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET30
                        VSAM.DATA.SET31
       will not return:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET1
                        VSAM.DATA.SET2
   VSAM.*.SET
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM.DATA1.SET
                        VSAM.DATA2.SET
       will not return:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET.KSDS
   VSAM.*A
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM.A
                        VSAM.BA
                        VSAM.BBA
       will not return:
                        VSAM.B
                        VSAM.AB
   VSAM.DATA.*
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET1
                        VSAM.DATA.SET2
       will not return:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET.KSDS
   VSAM.DATA*
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM.DATA1
                        VSAM.DATA23
       will not return:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET
   VSAM.**
   will return entry names:
                        VSAM
                        VSAM.DATA.SET1
                        VSAM.DATA.SET2
                        VSAM.DATA.SET.KSDS
       will not return:
                        VSAM1.DATA.SET
   VSAM.DATA.SET
   will return entry name:
                        VSAM.DATA.SET  only
   **.DATA
   will return entry names whose low level qualifier is DATA:
                        VSAM.DATA
                        NONVSAM.WORK.DATA
   **
   will return every entry name in a catalog:
For a GDG base named DATASET.GDG containing the following GDS entries:
DATASET.GDG.G0001V00
DATASET.GDG.G0002V00
DATASET.GDG.G0003V00
and for the non-VSAM data set named DATASET.GDG.G0001V00.XYZ, the following keys will return the following results:
DATASET.GDG.**
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0002V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0003V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00.XYZ

 DATASET.GDG.G0001V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00

 DATASET.GDG.G0001V00.**
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00.XYZ

 DATASET.GDG.G000%V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0002V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0003V00

 DATASET.GDG.G000%V00.**
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0002V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0003V00
     DATASET.GDG.G0001V00.XYZ
Exception: The entries returned by the data set name are not necessarily returned in ascending order.

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