On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:43:31 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >Not a trick question. This is more for my users who are too lazy or dumb to >use a mix of hex and characters... ;-) > >>Something like this >>//SYSIN DD * >> OPTION COPY >> INCLUDE COND=(1,500,SS,EQ,X'01F105C1C2C3C4C5') > >Many thanks. I eventualy used that X'???' format. I don't mind to do all the >char to hex conversion myself. There is actually a REXX function just for >that. Or I can just enter all fields in Char in a dataset and then use HEX >DATA for a copy/paste into DFSORT/ICETOOL JCL. > This could be done thorough an RFE to JCL and no change to SORT, such as (suppose this worked):
// SET X01=X'01',X05=X'05' //* Then: //SYSIN DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY OPTION COPY INCLUDE COND=(1,500,SS,EQ,'&X01.1&X05.ABCDE') But an RFE to JCL seems less likely to succeed than an RFE to SORT even though it would be far more useful. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
