Can Endevor handle embedded blanks in Element names?

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

Can Endevor handle embedded blanks in Element names?

Environment

All Supported Releases

Resolution

In V18.0 with PTF RO85779 and all future releases, Endevor will handle embedded blanks within an Element, USS file and path names.

The limitations are that the Element name has to be enclosed in quotes and can only be done in batch.

Example:

 ADD ELEMENT 'This is an example  ',
                    'of a way you might',
                    ' specify your ELEMENT na',
                    'me'

This new syntax method was created so that blanks can be inserted at the end and/or beginning of a line and have it retained in the name. When specifying the value for the name it must begin and end with a quote. If the name will span multiple lines, there needs to be a comma after the ending quote to indicate continuation of the name value. The last line with the name value without a comma after the ending quote will indicate the end of the name value. 

This new syntax must be coded in columns 1-72 in order to be parsed correctly.