Wildcards for Resource, User, and Group Names

The MLDAP ESM Module supports the following wildcards:

* Match zero or more characters, except the period "." (full stop, dot) character. This exception is generally only useful in dataset names, where it indicates that the wildcard applies only to the current DSN qualifier.
** Match zero or more characters, including the period ".". Usually used only in dataset names, to indicate any number of qualifiers, since the period character does not usually appear in other names.
+ Match exactly one character, except the period ".". This is not treated as a wildcard by default; it must be enabled in the module configuration using the plus-wildcard option.
.** Depending on configuration, this may be treated as a wildcard matching the empty string or any string starting with "."; or it may be treated as "**" if it appears at the end of a name. See MLDAP ESM Module Custom Configuration Information for more information on setting the dss-wildcard option in the module configuration.
% Match exactly one character, except the period ".". This is not treated as a wildcard by default; it must be enabled in the module configuration using the percent-wildcard option. See MLDAP ESM Module Custom Configuration Information for more information on setting the percent-wildcard option in the module configuration.

Wildcards can appear in two places: