I found the culprit. The 'ISRUEDIT DSLIST' panel had an errant character in the inital macro screen. Clearing it fixed the problem for PDS/PDSE/sequential files. Don't you hate it when the answer is right in front of you but you can't see it! Thanks to all.
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