How to change the field name?

mdineshkumar · New User Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 4

Consider there are 20 members in a dataset. Each member contains a field name called VAR-1. How to change this field name VAR-1 in all the members to VAR-2 at time without opening all the members? Is there are any TSO command like ?CHANGE? to do that?

khamarutheen · Active Member Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 677 Location: NJ

hi frnd,
i dont think v can have any option for ur req in TSO.. Try it in FILEAID tool... not clear.. if so then let me know.

Ramya A · Active User Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 104

khamarutheen is right...you could do this using FileAid

option 3 (Utility) --> 6 (Search/Update) --> option M with your PDS name.

With this option you can find and change a string (with / without position parameters) across members of a PDS.

Let me know if this helps...

Rgds,
Ramya

sonipankaj · New User Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 10

You can Use PDSMAN also, if u have. For checking whether you have it or not, just type PDSMAN in commandline. It will show you some PDS editing options. Go to Scan & replace option. Then specify the source string & the Target string. It will make the changes in all the members. It can also make changes in the selected members.