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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/VM
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 5, 2026

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new option for Filelist

I needed an exec to scan all members of my A-Disk (or any disk) to locate a string of data.  So, I wrote it and works great.  I imagine that many other CMS Users would benefit from this as well.  Then I got thinking that if the results were returned to Xedit (as in Filelist) it would even be better.  I have included the results of my findstr exec below.  I am searching for all occurrences of swng73 on my A-disk and a list is provided.  For an option in Filelist it would be best to return just the Fn Ft Fm of all members that contain the string an then you can Xedit the Member and search for the string yourself. 

 

Idea priority Medium
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    Kerry Wilson
    Jan 29, 2026

    Thank you for your submission. After discussing with the development team, we feel this EXEC would be a good item for a community tool repository. It is a useful tool, but it would be faster to get it in the hands of interested users by going though this approach due to other priorities by the development team.

    Comment from the developer: "It's a useful tool, no doubt, but getting it onto the downloads page is going to be easier/faster than trying to get it added officially to CMS. Plus, FILELIST itself is just a wrapper for XEDIT - extending its official feature set is probably overkill when a new utility EXEC/MACRO could do the job just as well.

    My initial thinking is that he could write a wrapper for FILELIST using the APPEND option (IE: get the list of files with the located string, then issue FILELIST (APPEND against each of them in turn). Or use the FILELIST option against a temporary file containing the findstr results, but that includes disk usage and cleanup that may not be desirable."

    z/VM Tool Repositories:

    Open Mainframe Project Tools Repo - https://github.com/openmainframeproject/zvm-community-tools

    z/VM Download site - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/zvm/download/

    Thanks,
    Kerry

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