Searching Endevor for hex characters
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Searching Endevor for hex characters

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Article ID: 205208

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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,

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

but that produces the following error:

BSTPPARS: E004 INVALID COMMAND WORDING, FOUND: '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. 

OPTIONS SHOWING TEXT NOSEARCH
WHERE TEXT
    EQ '.'

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'.

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

Environment

Endevor

PDSMAN 

Resolution

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

Additional Information

If your site has PDSMAN, you can use that tool to search for HEX.  Please review PDSMAN Article 435203