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I have been looking at the IBM command FNDSTRPDM2 in QPDA designed for
multi-file and multi-library string searches.  I am really liking this
command and I think it is a clever idea to use a list of libraries, files,
and members to search using entries contained in a member in a source file.
For example,
LIB1       QRPGLESRC  *ALL
LIB2       *ALL                    *ALL
Would search LIB1 for all members matching the string in file QRPGLESRC.
Then LIB2 for all files and all members.  I suppose you could use *all *all
*all but you would probably want to submit to batch with SBMJOB for some of
these that might take awhile.  WDSC will have a popup search that will use
this command for multi-file searches and I think this is a another step in
the right direction.  Again, we probably want to be aware of running this
in batch.  Search the WDSCI-L midrange archives for "FNDSTRPDM2" for a
small discussion on this functionality.  I think this command was added
recently.  Not sure when but I think at least V5R1 or earlier.  Excellent!
The only issue is that the help says that *LIBL and *CURLIB are options for
the library but when I enter *LIBL or *CURLIB it says not allowed.  Are
there plans to make the command match the help?  Also, I think this command
is best submitted in batch due to how long it could take.  Since QPDA is
added to the library list when starting PDM, SBMJOB CMD(FNDSTRPDM2...) does
not find this command even though QPDA is currently in the library list.
The SBMJOB is using the job description of the user profile and QPDA is not
in this library list.  Should I add QPDA to my job description?  Would it
be better for the FNDSTRPDM2 or even FNDSTRPDM (from command line) to have
a batch option that would submit itself to batch after doing an ADDLIBLE of
QPDA?

Thanks,
Craig Strong


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