Building your member list for processing

The Find/Change Utility is particularly useful when you are working with partitioned data sets. You can specify that either all members or only selected members of a PDS are searched by the FIND or CHANGE command you enter on the Command line.

Note: The selection described in this section is not applicable when the batch execution option is selected.

Perform either of these actions

Specify the sequential data set, VSAM data set, or PDS member that contains the data you want to search, using a combination of the Data set name, Member, and Volume serial entry fields.
If you leave the Member entry field blank, File Manager displays the F/Change Member Selection panel showing all members of the PDS:
- Select the members you want either by typing an S in the Cmd field, or with the SELECT primary command, and press Enter.
- Press F3 (Exit).
  The Find/Change Utility panel is redisplayed showing the selected members in the Process List.
You can also select members by entering a member name pattern in the Member entry field.

For example, to select all members whose name starts with “TRAN”:
1. Enter TRAN* in the Member entry field
2. Press Enter
The Find/Change Utility panel shows the relevant members in the Process List.
To select a range of members based on selection criteria, specify the data set name or name pattern for a PDS(E) data set, optionally the member name or pattern, and select the Advanced member selection option:
- When you press Enter, File Manager displays the Advanced Member Selection panel.
  Note: If you enter details in the Member field and select the Advanced member selection option, File Manager populates the Member name field on the subsequent Advanced Member Selection panel with the same value.
- Specify the selection criteria to select the members you want to print and press Enter.
  If you have left the Member name field on the Advanced Member Selection panel blank or have entered an asterisk (*) or a mask, File Manager displays the F/Change Member Selection panel. In this case, select the members you want to search (either by typing an S in the Cmd field, or with the SELECT primary command) and press Enter. The selected members are shown in the Process List on the Find/Change Utility panel.