Searching Endevor for hex characters with List Element action

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

There are elements residing within Endevor that contain non-printable hex values, for example x'0D' could be contained within an element.

There is a need to be able to search all elements within Endevor for certain hex values, for example search of x'0D'. Attempted using X'0D' in the WHERE TEXT, as shown in the example  below, but that produces the following error: BSTPPARS: E004 INVALID COMMAND WORDING, FOUND: '0D'

  OPTIONS SHOWING TEXT NOSEARCH
WHERE TEXT
    EQ X'0D'

Tried the format that follows, where an edit to the JCL in hex mode before submitting, enter a x'0D' in hex mode edit, and then submit the JCL. However, that does not work. The "printable" characters for x'0D' is a dot/period. The resulting Endevor List Element is matching on the dot/period rather than the actual x'0D'.

OPTIONS SHOWING TEXT NOSEARCH
WHERE TEXT
    EQ '.'

Is there any way to search for hex values using the Endevor List Element action?

 

Environment

Release : 18.0, 18.1 

Component : CA Endevor Software Change Manager

 

Resolution

Endevor does not search in HEX - it only searches TEXT.