COPY opens a screen to enter a member name or dataset to copy in.

Some examples of COPY/MOVE commands are below.

Using those, and assuming this line:įIND DO PREFIX finds only DONT and (DONT) įIND DO SUFFIX finds only ADO, $ADO, and ADO- įIND operands may be entered in any order for example, FIND ALL X DOG and F DOG X ALL are the same. Other parameters FIND can use are CHARS, PREFIX, SUFFIX, and WORD. Since FIND observes boundaries, the first one found is the DBD on line 4 (highlighted on the screen, in bold here). The F DBD command with the default bounds would find the DBD in DBDLIB on line 3. In this example a left boundary is set at column 12 and a right boundary is set at column 60. If you get the “But I can see it, it’s right there!” feeling when doing a FIND, check the bounds to make sure Edit is actually looking everywhere. If there is no such text between the labels, the message JUNK NOT FOUND is displayed, even if that text exists outside the labels. THERE finds the first occurrence of JUNK beginning at the label. F c’Text’.įinds are restricted by columns or labels. If you need to find the exact match, including case, use the letter C as a prefix or suffix to the quoted string, e. Picture strings are called using the letter P followed by the quoted character. # numeric characters upper case alphabetics invalid alphabetic characters – non-numeric characters Here is a list of the types of picture strings and their explanation:

One FIND option many people are not familiar with is the picture string.

Sometimes the string may be a keyword to the FIND command, in which case it needs to be quoted (for example, FIND ‘NEXT’ or FIND ‘FIRST’ ALL). the “*” or quotes) must be surrounded by quotes. ISPF COMMANDS – FIND, COPY, CUT, PASTE, MOVE, CREATE, HILITEįIND is usually used with the operands NEXT (the default), PREVIOUS, ALL, FIRST, or LAST.

Ispf editor line commands