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Change Masking Characters

You can change these masking characters to other characters.

To change masking characters, go to the Input character options area in the Miscellaneous Section of your general profile and change the following values:

Your default masking characters are changed.

You can also use the SET command to change these characters. For full instructions on how to perform this task, see the chapter “Basic Tasks.”

Examples: Using Masking Characters

The following examples show how to use masking characters to mask a jobname parameter. These examples reflect the use of default characters.

=

Matches all characters of a job name.

ABC=

Matches job names starting with ABC and ending in any other characters.

A=C

Matches job names that begin with A and end with C.

**ABC=

Matches job names with ABC as their third, fourth, and fifth characters, any specific first or second characters, and any remaining characters after the fifth (C).

*ABC

Matches job names with ABC as their second, third, and last characters.

AB****

Matches job names with AB as their first two characters, and four remaining characters in their names.