FYI. From ISPF You can see that Picture Strings are powerful
A picture string is a quoted string that is preceded or followed by the
letter "P". It can contain blanks, alphabetic and numeric characters
which represent themselves, or any of the special characters listed
below, each of which represents a class of characters.
The special characters that can be used in a "from" picture string are:
= - any character . - invalid characters
@ - alphabetic characters - - non-numeric characters
# - numeric characters < - lower case alphabetics
$ - special characters > - upper case alphabetics
¬ - non-blank characters
The special characters that can be used in a "to" picture string are:
= - any character < - lower case alphabetics
> - upper case alphabetics
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Lizette
-----Original Message-----
>From: John Mattson <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jul 18, 2012 1:33 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing
>
>While I am at it...
>WHY the Ampersand "&SYSTEM" WORKS in the find,
>but if you use &PDQR rather than $PDQR it fails .... is just madness.
>7 *-* "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' "
> >L> "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' "
>
>
>8 *-* "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE&PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' "
> >L> "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE&PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' "
>
> +++ RC(4) +++
>
>
>
>From: John Mattson/Epson
>To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
>Date: 07/18/2012 01:26 PM
>Subject: Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing
>
>
>Thanks to everyone! I have kept plugging at this and tried all your
>suggestions.
>Here is what I see so far.
>1) There is no reason syntactically that this should not work
>"ISREDIT F ALL 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.(&SYSTEM)' "
>
>2) For some strange reality THIS works
>"ISREDIT F FIRST 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.' "
>and this does not.. as soon as you add the "("
>"ISREDIT F FIRST 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.(' "
>
>3) Lizette's P' processing can be made to work (but really should not be
>necessary)
>"ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$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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