On Tue, 24 May 2016 06:15:40 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >You must renunc the same number of qualifiers as it is documented in the >manual. > What's the rationale for this restriction? Is it a holdover from an era when catalogs were structured according to the hierarchy of qualifiers? Feels like RFE material. I understand there's an ISV product that suffers no such restriction.
>So as others will point out > >A.B.C.** to A.B.C.D.** will need to be individually specified. > >Which is a real PITA because you have to code each file. If there are five - >not bad, if hundreds - annoying. > >However, one process I use is to create >1) A Word Document. >2) Use Word Mail Merge to take the A.B.C and create a second column with >A.B.C.D >3) Send that back to the Mainframe >4) Create a Filter List dataset if the number of file names is greater than 255 >5) Run DFDSS with PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' > I'd use sed or awk and never need to leave the Mainframe. And leave a script that my co-workers also could use. >Not easy but simpler than using ISPF Edit. > Even with Edit macros? Regular expressions are available nowadays. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
