Wildcard in Listcat

[karao76]

How can I use a wildcard to get a subset of the dataset listing? The dataset naming is such that they differ only a few characters in the last node and I dont want to loop thru 10000 datasets to find a few.

 

[rexxhead]

LISTC LEVEL(......)

Frank Clarke
Tampa Area REXX Programmers' Alliance
REXX Language Assn Listmaster

 

[karao76]

I probably did not make my question clear. LISTCAT LEVEL only allows you to specify up to a complete node but doesnt allow for wildcard characters like '*' . Am I right? I have datasets like this
NODE1.NODE2.NODE3.VSA32441 . If I specify LISTCAT LEVEL ("NODE1.NODE2.NODE3") , it returns a very huge list which I would have to loop thru to find what I want whereas what I am looking for is a way to specify something like
LISTCAT LEVEL ( "NODE1.NODE2.NODE3.VSA3*").

Pl let me know if that is possible

Thanks

 

[KiwiREXXDude]

If ISPF is active you can do;

DsLevel = 'MY.DATA.LEVEL'
Address 'ISPEXEC'
"LMDINIT LISTID(LISTID) LEVEL("DsLevel")"
if rc > 0 then return 0
"LMDLIST LISTID("LISTID") DATASET(DSNAME) OPTION(LIST)"
do while rc = 0
  say 'Found dataset 'dsname
  "LMDLIST LISTID("LISTID") DATASET(DSNAME) OPTION(LIST)"
end
"LMDFREE LISTID("LISTID")"
if rc > 0 then return 0
return 1

You can put 3.4 style wildcards into it (from memory).