From 0f277606251c3bd6f4e31381ea581faf239eae9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David McKnight <dmcknigh@ca.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:49:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix for 149789

---
 .../eclipse/rse/services/clientserver/NamePatternMatcher.java  | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services/clientserver/org/eclipse/rse/services/clientserver/NamePatternMatcher.java b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services/clientserver/org/eclipse/rse/services/clientserver/NamePatternMatcher.java
index 3b50d1486c9..f8f92a142ce 100644
--- a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services/clientserver/org/eclipse/rse/services/clientserver/NamePatternMatcher.java
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services/clientserver/org/eclipse/rse/services/clientserver/NamePatternMatcher.java
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ public class NamePatternMatcher implements IMatcher
 	public NamePatternMatcher(String genericName, boolean advanced, boolean caseSensitive)    
 	{
 		  this.caseSensitive = caseSensitive;
-		  genericName = genericName.trim();
+		  if (genericName == null)
+			  genericName = "*";
 		  int len = 0;
 		  // determine if given a null name
 		  if ((genericName == null) || (genericName.length()==0))