Jim, Move your cursor down to the column header, "Prompt" and press enter. This tells ISPF you want the member list sorted on the "Prompt" column.
Menu Functions Confirm Utilities Help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDIT H30D.TEMP.PDEFLIB String(s) found Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR +-----------------------------------------------------------Put cursor on this word V Name Prompt Size Created Changed ID It's like looking at the member list and asking "Who's been updated recently?". To do that you bring up the member list, put your cursor on the column header, "Changed" and pressing enter. Of course this sort would be dependent on whether ISPF statistics are on or not. Chuck Charles Hardee CA technologies Sr Sustaining Engineer Tel: +1-952-838-1039 charles.har...@ca.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: how to identify members that DO NOT contain a string On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Hardee, Charles H <charles.har...@ca.com>wrote: > Jim, > > How do you want to see the results? For instance, open the PDS using > ISPF/Edit or View and then type "SRCHFOR string" where string is what you > want to find, then hit ENTER. The resulting scan will place "*Found" in the > prompt column. Place your cursor on the Column header, "Prompt" and press > enter. This will bring all members to the "top" that contain the string. Go > to the last member which has "*Found" beside it and starting with the next > member, you have a list of members that do not contain the string. > > Will this work? > > Chuck > > Charles Hardee > CA technologies > Sr Sustaining Engineer > Tel: +1-952-838-1039 > charles.har...@ca.com > > > Chuck, I'm a little confused regarding your suggestion. I've issued the "srchfor" command and the resultant screen looks like this - Menu Functions Confirm Utilities Help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDIT H30D.TEMP.PDEFLIB String(s) found Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR Name Prompt Size Created Changed ID _________ BDZG *Found _________ BDZJ _________ BDZK _________ BDZN _________ BDZO _________ BDZR where do I position the cursor for the next stage. Jim McAlpine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html