Thanks to everyone!  I have kept plugging at this and tried all your 
suggestions. 
Here is what I see so far. 
1) There is no reason syntactically that this should not work 
"ISREDIT F ALL 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.(&SYSTEM)'        " 

2) For some strange reality THIS works 
"ISREDIT F FIRST 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.'                "
and this does not.. as soon as you add the "("
"ISREDIT F FIRST 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.('               "

3) Lizette's P' processing can be made to work (but really should not be 
necessary)
"ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM'        " 
Works !!! 
"ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM$'       " 
Works 
"ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM)'       " 
Does NOT 

        Now, why "(" causes the ISREDIT FIND to go nuts, but not the 
ISREDIT FIND P' ' is quite beyond me.
        And why ")" causes ISREDIT FIND P' to go nuts, but NOT "(" is also 


Thanks to all, I now have something that works, sort of, but there is 
really something wrong with ISPF here. 
by the by, I am on zOS 1.11 


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