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Space announcement This space now contains the documentation for all the following components:
  • CHANGE ACCUMULATION PLUS
  • IMAGE COPY PLUS
  • RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS
  • RECOVERY PLUS for IMS
We are no longer updating the individual documentation spaces for these components. For the latest documentation, see BMC AMI Backup and Recovery for IMS 5.2.

Masking characters

You can specify the new DSN as a fully qualified name or as a mask.

The mask string must adhere to the DFSMSdss masking rules for new DSNs. However, as an extension to the DFSMSdss masking, the Recovery utility supports specifying one or more question marks (?) as part of the new DSN mask to indicate a single-character replacement.

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The DSN mask can include the following characters in the nodes:

Character

Description

*

Copy the DSN node to the corresponding node in the output DSN. The single asterisk can appear only once in the same node of a DSN mask.

If a single asterisk (*) appears as a node in the mask (for example, TEST.DATA.*), the corresponding source DSN node is copied to the corresponding location in the output DSN.

**

Copy enough source DSN nodes to build an output DSN with the same number of nodes as the source DSN. The double asterisk can appear only once in a mask, must start a new node of the mask, and must be followed by a period or a space.

If double asterisks appear in the mask, the mask is converted internally to include enough single asterisk nodes so the mask has at least the same number of nodes as the source DSN. For example, if the source DSN has 5 nodes, the mask TEST.DATA.** is converted to TEST.DATA.*.*.*. If the mask has more nodes than the source DSN, the double asterisks are ignored.

? or %

Copy single characters from a source DSN node to the corresponding locations in the output DSN. If the end of the source DSN node has been reached, any remaining ? or % characters in the mask node are skipped.

xxxxxxxx

Replace the corresponding node of the source DSN with string (1 through 8 characters) that must conform to normal DSN conventions for nodes.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*

BMC AMI Backup and Recovery for IMS 5.1