Jim, I'm trying to understand what you want. I took some existing code I wrote ages ago in REXX and modified it to do this function:
"Search all members of a PDS for a string of text where the member name matches both a PRE and SUF" I hope this is what you were looking for, I'm not sure I understood your intent from your email. It's in native TSO REXX, called from a JCL step in batch. This example looks for all JCL comment lines in MY.PDS.LIBRARY by calling the SRCHPDS member of REXX library WHERE.YOU.PUT.YOUR.SRCHPDS.REXX : //* THIS JOB WILL SEARCH PDS LIBRARIES FOR DATA //* THIS ONE ALLOWS MEMBER NAME PATTERNS WITH A PREFIX AND SUFFIX //* //SRCHPDS EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSEXEC DD DSN=WHERE.YOU.PUT.YOUR.SRCHPDS.REXX,DISP=SHR //SYSTSIN DD * SRCHPDS MY.PDS.LIBRARY PRE(ABC) SUF(XYX) FIND(//*) /* REXX - SRCHPDS MEMBER */ /* SEARCH A PDS WITH MEMBER NAME WITH PDSPRE PREFIX, PDSSUF SUFFIX, FOR FINDSTR*/ TRACE O ARG PDSDSN "PRE(" PDSPRE ")" "SUF(" PDSSUF ")" "FIND(" FINDSTR ")" . PDSDSN = STRIP(PDSDSN) PRELEN = LENGTH(PDSPRE) SUFLEN = LENGTH(PDSSUF) IF LISTDSI("'"PDSDSN"'") = 0 & SYSDSORG = 'PO' THEN DO CALL OUTTRAP 'LDS.' "LISTDS '"PDSDSN"' MEMBERS" CALL OUTTRAP 'OFF' END ELSE DO SAY 'LISTDSI FUNCTION FAILED' EXIT END DO MBR = 7 TO LDS.0 LDS.MBR = STRIP(LDS.MBR) IF LEFT(LDS.MBR,PRELEN) = PDSPRE & RIGHT(LDS.MBR,SUFLEN) = PDSSUF THEN DO /* MEMBER NAME MATCHED PREFIX AND SUFFIX, SEARCH IT */ "ALLOC F(DD1) DA('"PDSDSN"("LDS.MBR")') SHR REUSE" "EXECIO * DISKR DD1 (FINIS STEM LINES." SAY 'SEARCHING MEMBER' LDS.MBR /* COMMENT OUT IF YOU DONT NEED THIS */ X = 0 /*ZERO FIND COUNT*/ DO Z = 1 TO LINES.0 IF POS(FINDSTR,LINES.Z) > 0 THEN DO SAY LINES.Z /*REPORT MATCHING LINE*/ X = X + 1 /*ACCUMULATE FIND COUNT FOR CURRENT MEMBER*/ END END Z IF X > 0 THEN SAY X" LINE(S) CONTAINED '"FINDSTR"' IN MEMBER "LDS.MBR "FREE F(DD1)" DROP LINES. END END EXIT Hope this helps. Best wishes, Gary Diehl Systems Administration "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary people. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person." -Elbert Hubbard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html