Shmuel ! Its amazing how much you contribute without access to a z
system. Hope my memory and research is that good when we go off zOS
(we're being SAPonified).
I have to move on to other things but I have found the following:
1) It is indeed necessary to use the "&&" with the ISREDIT in REXX,
whenever there is an & in your string, and no matter whether it is a
symbolic or not (could be just text).
2) When testing FIND, it is a good idea to VIEW your target data set so
things will not get changed accidentially, and use CHANGE rather than
FIND. Reason is you may be successfully FINDing something OTHER than what
you think you are finding. Doing a change to some strange string makes it
very clear just what you FOUND and CHANGEd. Much of my confusion was
self-induced because the FIND commands appeared to be working, but they
were only finding everything up to the single &.
Thanks for you, and everyone's help
From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <shmuel+...@patriot.net>
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: 07/20/2012 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing
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<ofddeba129.3add7da9-on88257a40.0050f760-88257a40.00514...@ea.epson.com>,
on 07/19/2012
at 07:47 AM, John Mattson <john_matt...@ea.epson.com> said:
>Shmuel ! I sent my original source, and it was REXX.
It's ISPF that interprets the ampersamds, not REXX. Try turning on the
ISPF trace and see if anything pops out.
>Having a few spare moments, I quickly converted the REXX to CLIST
>and all of the FIND's worked as a clist.
What was the exact code?
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