On Tue, 24 May 2016 06:15:40 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:

>You must renunc the same number of qualifiers as it is documented in the 
>manual.
>
What's the rationale for this restriction?  Is it a holdover from an era when 
catalogs
were structured according to the hierarchy of qualifiers?  Feels like RFE 
material.
I understand there's an ISV product that suffers no such restriction.

>So as others will point out
>
>A.B.C.**  to A.B.C.D.**   will need to be individually specified.
>
>Which is a real PITA because you have to code each file.  If there are five - 
>not bad, if hundreds - annoying.
>
>However, one process I use is to create 
>1) A Word Document.
>2) Use Word Mail Merge to take the A.B.C and create a second column with 
>A.B.C.D
>3) Send that back to the Mainframe
>4) Create a Filter List dataset if the number of file names is greater than 255
>5) Run DFDSS with PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN'
> 
I'd use sed or awk and never need to leave the Mainframe.  And leave a script 
that
my co-workers also could use.

>Not easy but simpler than using ISPF Edit.
> 
Even with Edit macros?  Regular expressions are available nowadays.

-- gil

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