I'm trying to copy a text file from within the z/OS unix shell to a PDS titled P2.OUTPUT($010), but whenever i run the command cp file.txt "//P2.OUTPUT($010)" i get an error stating that P2.OUTPUT(-sh10) is an invalid location. For whatever reason, whenever I run the command $010 becomes -sh10. I've tried putting $010 in '' and a few other things but no matter what I do it doesn't seem to work. I believe it's an issue with accessing the file and not with the cp command because I can't view the contents of the member using the cat command either, and any error trying to access the member using any command lists it as -sh10 instead of $010. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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The problem is that the unix shell interprets $0 as an environment-variable that has the value -sh as can be seen when using echo $0, so your command becomes cp file.txt "//P2.OUTPUT(-sh10)".
Try escaping the $ using a backslash: cp file.txt "//P2.OUTPUT(\$010)".
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Thank you very much for your help, it worked perfectly! – JOB Oct 08 '15 at 15:16