In addition to IEBUPDTE-like utilities, StarTool (and I would hope its CBT predecessor) has a REPLACE function that can scan an entire PDS(E) and replace one string with another as long the result does not exceed line length. It allows such filters as WORD, PREFIX, and SUFFIX. You can make a trial run to examine the results without actually updating anything before doing it for real. Several other options are included as well. Something to keep in mind.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 8:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: IEBUPDTE question Hundred+ members. As I mentioned (but it got lost in the what is midnight argument), I used a CBT program to perform the adds. I just modified it to pass-though the ./ INCLUDE cards as data cards. Tony Thigpen Wayne Bickerdike wrote on 11/20/2017 11:39 PM: > oops, > > Change all the unwanted ./ cards to ## or similar. After the IEBUPDTE, > change them back to ./ > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Assuming the cards with a ./ don't have the correct syntax, why not >> do an EXCLUDE ALL, FIND ALL ./. >> >> EXCLUDE all the correct ./ cards and then do a DEL ALL NX >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: >> >>> I need to catalog a bunch of jobs into a PDS during a conversion. >>> The source system utility creates an IEBUPDTE job for this purpose. >>> >>> Unfortunately, some of the data within these jobs steams contain a './' >>> at the start of the card record. IEBUPDTE thinks they are control >>> cards and cancels the catalog of the new member. >>> >>> At this point, the only thing I think should work is to individually >>> FTP these members and bypass IEBUPDTE, but that will be a real hassle. >>> >>> I am looking for suggestions on how to get these members cataloged. >>> >>> -- >>> Tony Thigpen >> -- >> Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
