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Segmented PTEXT Strings

You can specify a series of text strings separated by periods, referred to as segmented text strings. If segmented text is specified:

• Enclose each text segment in single quotation marks.
• Each PTEXT specification can be 40 characters, including the periods that separate the segmented text strings.
• Quotation marks that enclose the text string are not included in the 40 characters.

The report is scanned until the first segment of PTEXT text is located, and then it is scanned for the next segment, and so on, until the last segment is found.

For the specification

PTEXT1='SYSLMOD'.'LOAD('

when the following JCL is scanned:

//LKED.SYSLMOD  DD  DSN=PROD.LOAD(PGMA130),DISP=SHR

the extracted SYSOUT ID is the member name PGMA130.

Notice that the text segments SYSLMOD and LOAD are enclosed in single quotation marks to show that the period is a segment delimiter.