Searching for parts of a term (character masking)

Masking characters, otherwise known as "wildcard" characters, offer a way to make a search more flexible. They do this by increasing the number of text documents that are found by a search.

DB2 Net Search Extender uses two masking characters: percent (%) and underscore (_).

Note

Use wildcard characters sparingly as they can increase the size of your result list significantly, thus decreasing performance and returning unexpected search results.