I have found that the ISPF development folks are pretty responsive. This problem is certainly worth an SR.
. . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: John Mattson <john_matt...@ea.epson.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/18/2012 01:34 PM Subject: Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> While I am at it... WHY the Ampersand "&SYSTEM" WORKS in the find, but if you use &PDQR rather than $PDQR it fails .... is just madness. 7 *-* "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' " >L> "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' " 8 *-* "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE&PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' " >L> "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE&PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' " +++ RC(4) +++ From: John Mattson/Epson To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Date: 07/18/2012 01:26 PM Subject: Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing Thanks to everyone! I have kept plugging at this and tried all your suggestions. Here is what I see so far. 1) There is no reason syntactically that this should not work "ISREDIT F ALL 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.(&SYSTEM)' " 2) For some strange reality THIS works "ISREDIT F FIRST 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.' " and this does not.. as soon as you add the "(" "ISREDIT F FIRST 'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTE&PDQR.(' " 3) Lizette's P' processing can be made to work (but really should not be necessary) "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM' " Works !!! "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM$' " Works "ISREDIT F ALL P'DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS$UCMD$REMOTE$PDQR$(&SYSTEM)' " Does NOT Now, why "(" causes the ISREDIT FIND to go nuts, but not the ISREDIT FIND P' ' is quite beyond me. And why ")" causes ISREDIT FIND P' to go nuts, but NOT "(" is also Thanks to all, I now have something that works, sort of, but there is really something wrong with ISPF here. by the by, I am on zOS 1.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN