Replace text in data sets

With ZOAU, you can change all occurrences of Lines to Records in the members of ${prefix}.my.dsed in the following ways:

• Issuing a shell command:

  • Option 1:

  dsed "s/Lines/Records/g" "${prefix}.my.dsed"
  

  • Option 2:

  mvscmd --pgm=SORT --args='NOLIST' --sysout=dummy --sortin="${prefix}.my.dsed" --sortout="${prefix}.my.dsed" --sysin=stdin <<zz
   SORT FIELDS=COPY
   INREC FINDREP=(IN=C'Lines',
   OUT=C'Records')
  zz
  

• Calling an API in Python programs:

  datasets.find_replace("%s.my.dsed" % HLQ, "Lines", "Records")
  

Without ZOAU, to achieve the same purpose, you need to write the following JCL statements:

//*
//* Search for the string 'Lines' in the dataset
//* @@HLQ@@ZOASAMP.MY.DSED and replace each occurrence
//* with 'Records'.
//* Write the output to the same dataset as was used for
//* input.
//* Returns 0 if successful, non-zero if an error occurred.
//*
//DSED EXEC PGM=SORT,                                                 +
//      PARM='NOLIST'
//SYSIN DD *
 SORT FIELDS=COPY
 INREC FINDREP=(IN=C'Lines',
 OUT=C'Records')
/*
//SYSOUT  DD SYSOUT=* 
//SORTIN  DD DSN=@@HLQ@@.ZOASAMP.MY.DSED,DISP=SHR
//SORTOUT DD DSN=@@HLQ@@.ZOASAMP.MY.DSED,DISP=SHR