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can anybody tell me how you are doing string replacement in mainframe job?

for example....if a password column had six characters .....i need to replace it with 6 '*'s .



Thanks in advance.

Are you using MVS version? If yes please post in that forum? If not then please explain.
If your using px then you can do replacement in the transformer using different functions.

What forum would that be, exactly? There's no dedicated MVS forum here.

Thats right we dont. We only have MVS job type. Sorry, my bad.
If its a px job then there are certain ways this can be done.
For instance if your column is of type varchar, do It will not fit the date format and hence give you stars. If the field can have less character then the length specified, you can do a substring of it using

It's a mainframe job. Unfortunately there is no function such as the one you seek in mainframe jobs. You have Len() to determine the length, and I think - without checking - that you have Str() which can generate repeated strings. So something like Str("*",Len(MyString)) might do it for you.

If it really is a mainframe job. The OP has another duplicate post in the px forum.

Because of you, I would guess.

Yea, that was my mistake assuming there is an MVS forum. The poor guy posted in the px forum and we continued with this post. O well.

There is no STR function, alas.

Certainly you could do something like RPAD('', 6, '*') to generate six asterisk characters.

But I don't think the second argument can be an expression. That is, you could not use RPAD('', (CHARACTER_LENGTH(InLink.ColName)), '*')

Maybe that will give you some ideas, however.