The ALTER command does not allow you to replace a wildcard (*) within an Element Comment. Below is an example of what
1) you can do
ALTER ELEMENT ...
REPL DESC 'OLD DESC' WITH 'NEW DESC WITH * INSIDE'
2) but then can not Change it back:
ALTER ELEMENT ...
REPL DESC 'NEW DESC WITH * INSIDE' WITH 'OLD DESC'
Error: C1BM4100: E118 INVALID "FROM" VALUE ON THE REPLACE CLAUSE
Problem: in TO-VALUE * is allowed, but in FROM-VALUE it is not.
Release: Endevor V18.0
To resolve the problem you need to apply Endevor PTF SO07919. This PTF introduces a new option that is applicable to the Alter Description, Last Action CCID,
Generate CCID and Retrieve CCID fields and allows for specifying a "from value" that includes place holder (%) or wildcard (*) characters to be matched and not treated as special characters.
The exact match option is ignored for the other Alter actions:
Processor group, Signout Userid and User Data.
For example, with the option "exact match", you could alter:
LAST ACTION CCID 'LAST*%%*%**' WITH
'LAST ACTION'
Without this new option, the above would be a syntax error.