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Generic Notation

Some panels allow you to use generic notation. Generic notation, also called pattern matching, allows you to easily specify more than one name (for example, job name) by the use of wildcards. Use the underscore (_) as a generic character (or wildcard) to represent one character or use the asterisk (*) as generic character to represent one or more characters at the end of the name.

For example, defining a job name exclusion for ABC* would exclude all jobs beginning with the letters ABC. Entering a query selection for job name for A_C_E___ would select all jobs with an A in the first position, a C in the third position, an E in the fifth position and any character in the second, fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth position.