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Hello,

I have a dataset name like this :

DSN = U60667.<002.XX>.DATA.

I want to replace <002.XX> with Q1 defined like :
01 Q1 PIC X(110).

Q1 can be of varying length. For this I wrote following code :

INSPECT DSN REPLACING ALL '<002.XX>' BY Q1.

But the compiler gave an error that Q1 is of higher length than '<002.XX>' . Could you suggest me something to overcome this.

Regards,
Vinod.

Given that a node in a data set name cannot be more than eight characters in length, why did you define Q1 to be PIC X(110)?