Delete data from column in Edit Mode.

[utkarsh]

Hi,

In a pgm, while in the edit mode, I'd like to delete all the fields present from colum 40 to 50. What command may I sue to delete these?

[William Collins]

Go into the Help and find out about Picture strings.

[Robert Sample]

And look up BNDS as well.

[utkarsh]

Go into the Help and find out about Picture strings.

What are picture strings? I could not locate the details about them?

BNDS was helpful but they tough to use. If you forgot to reset them, they affect the entire profile!

[Akatsukami]

Picture strings. Note that in z/OS V2.1 and above you can also use regular expressions.

[William Collins]

You can also locate information on Picture Strings in the online help. Try FIND, Specifying the character string.

[nicc]

And, with the BNDS, use the SHIFT left comand - '('

If you keep the bounds line displayed you should not forget to reset them!

[prino]

1. find an unused character in your data, like x'00'

2. Code: Select all

   change ' ' x'00' all

3. Code: Select all

   c p'=' '-' 40 50 all

4. Code: Select all

   c '-----------' '' 40 all

5. Code: Select all

   c x'00' ' ' all

And hope that your data doesn't contain any other sequence of 11 minus signs...

And the relevance of this to JCL is?????

[utkarsh]

Is there an easy way to work on point 1 if there are more character of different nature:

1.find an unused character in your data, like x'00'

[William Collins]

If your data is "text" then any non-text value will do.

If you data contains packed-decimal fields, then chose any non-text whose hex-representation starts with A-F.

If your data contains binary fields, then you'd have to check, because any bit-combination could exist.