FIND and RFIND commands

The FIND primary command finds and displays a character string within the data set name. Use this format:


>>-FIND--string--+------+--+-------+--+-----+--+--------+------->
                 '-NEXT-'  '-CHARS-'  '-ALL-'  '-PREFIX-'   

>--+---+--+-------+--+--------+--+----+--+------+--+------+----->
   '-X-'  '-FIRST-'  '-SUFFIX-'  '-NX-'  '-LAST-'  '-WORD-'   

>--+------+----------------------------------------------------><
   '-PREV-'

For example, this command would tell ISPF to find all occurrences of the character string ELSE:

FIND ELSE ALL

The operands X and NX can be used to limit your search to excluded (X) or unexcluded (NX) data sets.

For more information about the operands used with this command, see FIND—find character strings. NEXT and CHARS are the default operands.

ISPF automatically scrolls to bring the character string to the top of the list. To repeat the search without reentering the character string, use the RFIND command.

Note: RFIND search starts from the second data set in the list. It is not cursor-sensitive.