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Enhanced ISPF: Reference List, Search, Change, and PDSE Workbench
File Manager provides several enhancements to the basic facilities that are available in an ISPF session: Enhanced Reference List, Enhanced Search, Enhanced Change, and PDSE Workbench.
Indexed search
Use the indexed search to search for words in one or more partitioned data sets that are not load libraries. The search uses an index that contains all of the words and the occurrences of each word in a group of data sets.
Index Search panel
Specifying a search expression

Working with File Manager
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- Viewing and changing data sets
  To view data stored in a supported data set, use the View Utility or the Edit Utility.
- Creating and editing templates
  For many tasks performed with File Manager, you can manipulate your view of a data set by applying a template.
- Working with the Template List
  Display a list of templates and perform actions on them.
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- Tape Specific Functions
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- Using UNIX™ System Services and the Hierarchical File System
- Introduction to programming with File Manager functions
- Enhancing File Manager processing
  You can enhance normal processing of a number of File Manager tasks by supplying a procedure that runs in conjunction with the File Manager process.
- Redefines criteria
  Redefines criteria can be specified for a field with a REDEFINES clause, or a field that is the target of a REDEFINES clause.
- Enhanced ISPF: Reference List, Search, Change, and PDSE Workbench
  File Manager provides several enhancements to the basic facilities that are available in an ISPF session: Enhanced Reference List, Enhanced Search, Enhanced Change, and PDSE Workbench.
  - Setting up the enhanced ISPF commands
    There are two methods of setting up the enhanced ISPF commands.
  - Using Enhanced Reference List, Search, and Change
  - Indexed search
    Use the indexed search to search for words in one or more partitioned data sets that are not load libraries. The search uses an index that contains all of the words and the occurrences of each word in a group of data sets.
    - Setting up the indexed search ISPF command
      You can define the indexed search command both with or without LIBDEFs.
    - Invoking the XFind command
    - Creating a new index directory data set
      Create a new index directory data set and allocate the index directory file.
    - Index definition members
    - Index List panel
    - Index Search panel
  - PDSE Workbench
    Use PDSE Workbench to manage members of all PDS and PDSE data sets, including member generations.
- File Manager Service Provider for z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition
  File Manager Service Provider for IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition enables client applications to access IBM Z data sources using z/OS Connect.
- Function and panel reference lists

Specifying a search expression

Search

This is where you specify your search arguments which are one or more words connected by AND & or OR | clauses and perform an index search.

Specify a search expression in the search field to list matching words in the index. Position the cursor to the display word and press Enter to display an indexed search report.

To retrieve a previous search value, press Enter with a blank search value. Use the S prefix command to retrieve a previous search from the displayed list.

The search field is scrollable so use the F10 (left), F11 (right), and F4 (expand) keys to enter more than the displayed width.

Expression rules

The following rules apply when specifying the search expression:

Each word specified must be no more than 46 characters long.
The word can contain the following wild card characters so that pattern matching is performed: asterisk (*) or % (percent) sign.

*

Represents any number of characters. For example: *ABC* can be specified to match any word containing the characters ABC.

%

Matches any value in the specific position represented by the percent sign. For example: %ABC% can be specified to match any word that is 5 bytes long and contains ABC starting in the second byte.
If only one word without a wild card character is specified, then it is treated as a prefix for matching words.
If more than one word is specified, then words without wild card characters are matched exactly with index words.
When the AND (&) connector is used in the expression, the index list displays the first word in the expression.. The number of occurrences is limited to lines that contain matches for all words in the expression. Any combination of AND (&) and OR (|) values are allowed in the one expression.

Example 1: AA & BB & CC

Result:

AA with the number of occurrences limited to lines containing BB and CC word values.

Example 2: AA | BB & CC | EE & FF

Result:

AA: All lines containing AA as a word value.
BB: With the number of occurrences limited to lines containing CC word values.
EE: With the number of occurrences limited to lines containing FF word values.

Example 3: AA* | BB* & CC*

Result:

AA*: All lines containing words with AA as a prefix.
BB*: Lines that contain both BB and CC prefixed words