Replace special characters with spaces

[anilanju]

Hi

i have a file with rec len : 432, FB
It has some special characters eg ( / , * , & , : ) at some positions between 10 - 30,which i want to replace with spaces.But the alteration should be between these column only.The position is not fixed for these special characters.It can be anywhere between the position mentioned.

I used this command for '/'
OPTION COPY
INREC FINDREP=(INOUT=(C'/',C'-'),STARTPOS=10,ENDPOD=30)

but i got the error which says :

OPTION COPY
INREC FINDREP=(INOUT=(C'/',C'-'),STARTPOS=91,ENDPOD=120)
$
OPERAND DEFINER ERROR

please help.

[Anuj Dhawan]

Not sure if it's typo or you have actually used this:

ENDPOD=30)

it should be

ENDPOS=30)

Also, are you using DFSort or SyncSort or other. If it's DFSort, make sure you've z/OS DFSORT V1R5 PTF UK90013 (July, 2008) installed. In order FINDREP to work, you need this PTF.

And if you're using SyncSort, what version of it you are at?