I want to access a specific member of a PDS on the mainframe. This PDS contains thousands of members. I would like  to be able to specify something like

aaaa.bbbb.cccc.dddd(myfile*)

or similar. I tried entering the example above as shown here


but received this message


Is it simply not doable or is there some form of workaround?

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Michael Simpson
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Actually, I'll reply in part to my own post. The list works in the same way Windows does with any list; start keying in the prefix of your filename, and focus will automatically scroll down to the starting member.

Having said that, I would imagine that the creation of the PDS member list would be much (?) faster if the s/w only had to look for specific members.

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Michael Simpson
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Actually, I'll reply in part to my own post. The list works in the same way Windows does with any list; start keying in the prefix of your filename, and focus will automatically scroll down to the starting member.

Having said that, I would imagine that the creation of the PDS member list would be much (?) faster if the s/w only had to look for specific members.

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Michael Simpson
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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Hi Michael,

I am afraid that most FTP servers do not support partial listing with wildcards. From the 501 error, your FTP complains there are some invalid characters in the remote.
Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9282753/ftp-directory-partial-listing-with-wildcards

I think RTE (BlueZone) FTP also supports to find and focus to the file with the prefix you are typing.

Thanks
Shaogeng

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ShaoGeng YI
Software Engineer III
Rocket Internal - All Brands
DaLian CN
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