The wildcards listed below are supported in many different places when specifying strings (e.g. file names).
'*' - zero or more characters '+' - one or more characters '?' - exactly one character '%' - exactly one character (backward compatible with FLAM4 and conform with ISPF (not in URLs)) '#' - exactly one digit (not supported on MVS, because '#' could be part of a qualifier) '=' - exactly one digit (supported on all platforms but mainly for MVS) '^' - escape character (put it before a wildcard character if it is part of the file/member name)
If one of the wildcard characters is part of the string itself, you
can escape the wildcard character with the caret (^).
'dat^*.txt' - the file "dat*.txt"
Wildcards are a powerful tool for file processing and searching in our compressed and encrypted archives.