RE: Finding members

The thing that's always bugged me is that while there are system files
that contain all sorts of information about the objects on the system,
even down to a list of all fields in all files on the system, there is
no file that contains a list of the members on the system. That said it
is a relatively simple matter to write a program that reads through the
QADBXREF file in QSYS and run a CHKOBJ for the member for each source
file on the system. It is also possible though slightly more difficult,
and much more time consuming to create a program that will look for
members with wildcards in their names.
Joe Lee


>>> Booth@MartinVT.com 11/07/2002 15:13:07 >>>

 Aside from all of the other suggestions (which are good ones) there's
a
mix-up on files and members.   A member is not a file.

"Members" is one of IBM's wonderfully great ideas that fell flat.  We
have
to live with the consequences but the consequences are minor.  You've
hit on
the worst consequence - how does one find a member?  Members are hard
to
find because they are not objects like files and libraries and
programs.

On the AS/400 I think its easier to think of things as being in object
bags
instead of on  an object tree.


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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Thursday, November 07, 2002 05:41:51 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Finding members

Thanks Bonnie...however, the file (as it's called on the hp) would
actually
be a member on the iseries (MYLIB/MYFILE), and if my understanding is
correct (and that's truly said with caution), then you would not see
the
member if you were using the WRKOBJ command...?

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John
Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bonnie Williams [SMTP:WilliamB@ccsd15.k12.il.us]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:09 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Finding members
>
> To find a file named MYFILE anywhere on the system, type:
> WRKOBJ OBJ(*ALL/MYFILE)
>