No, I'm saying that I know what the CHANGE command does. Did the OP say that the relevant lines are contiguous?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 7:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: dataset allocation On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 19:37, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Using global change command would work in, e.g., SuperWylbur, but the > change command in ISPF doesn't have the requisite functionality. Are you saying you know what the macro (that Wayne referred to) does? It's been a long time since I wrote any edit macros, but a quick peek at one of those that I have a copy of shows that (to make a specific change to all of a subset of lines) I typically used - a find command to find the first line of the subset (or something just before it), which I then labelled - a find command to find the final line of the subset (or something just after it), which I then labelled - a change command along the lines of change " one thing" "to another thing" .first .final all The point with this is that the searches for the first/final lines are done by the editor, not by the macro's own logic, and the change command likewise. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
