> The InSync product can do what you need, across a single or multiple PDS's. > It's not a 'no-cost' solution, but I've found that no matter what you try, > there's no such thing as a free lunch.
> As one person pointed out is a product by Compuware. It also costs a small > fortune... Or there's SimpList, which costs $5,000 a year. Among many hundreds of features is a CHGALL function that can change case sensitive, non-case sensitive, or hexadecimal strings across some or all members in a PDS(E). Simply enter CHGALL on a member list command line, and a panel prompts for the string to change as well as various optional parameters (e.g. line range, column range, etc). Before executing CHGALL a member list can optionally be filtered by including or excluding members to be changed. All sorts of criteria can be used to filter the list, such as member name, member contents, size, creation date, etc. For example, change only those members that begin with 'A' or end with 'X' and contain the word 'PINK' but don't contain the word 'Elephant' and were changed after a certain date by USER01. If intelligent decisions need to be made (e.g. only change the word PINK to BLUE if the word RED appears somewhere on the same line), an edit macro can be used instead. SimpList can apply the macro to every member in a list, or only to those members that match certain criteria. For example, before applying the macro the member list could be filtered so it only contains members that have the number '6' or '7' as the second character of the member name don't and don't have the letter 'B' or 'C' as the third character. The list could also be filtered so the macro is only applied to members that contain the word PROCEDURE or PERFORMING but don't contain the words SQL or COMPUTATIONAL, and were created before a certain date and are less than 100 lines in length (etc). Again, this is just one of many hundreds of features. The product only costs $5,000 a year and takes about 30 minutes to install. For more information please see the link below. For an extended free trial please contact me off-list. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
