Re: AW: Full-text searching

Hi Birgitta

Both products are still part of 6.1 - I think Kent's white paper overstates things when saying OmniFind replaces Text Extenders. In fact, there are enhancements to Text Extenders in 6.1, according to a January 2008 PDF I posted in another reply to Rob.

I don't know if there is a statement from IBM that Text Extenders (and XML Extenders) will be taken out of production.

Vern

Birgitta Hauser wrote:

With Release 6.1 DB2 Text Extenders will be replaced by the Omnifind Text
Search Tool.
For more information have a look at the following white paper:

Exploring the IBM OmniFind Text Search Server: Performing high-speed
linguistic text searches against DB2 text data and documents stored in
rich-text formats
http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/whitepaper/i/
omnifind/search

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

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Von: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Vern Hamberg
Gesendet: Wednesday, 10. March 2010 04:35
An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Betreff: Re: Full-text searching

The text extenders do add text search capabilities to SQL. From the PDF -

"DB2 Text Extender adds the power of full-text retrieval to SQL queries"

PDF can be found at

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/sh126720.p
df


There is also an HTTP text search component, iSeries Webserver Search Engine, information at

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/http/services/search.html

It is only for searching for a web site, I think, but not sure - haven't used it. It handles only text files and html files.


And there is a new thing that I saw at the DB2/RPG Summit called OmniFind that can search many types of documents - Word, etc. Not just text or html. Kent Milligan has a white paper on it with this quote-

"OmniFind Text Search Server for DB2 for i delivers the common DB2 Family text-search technology to the IBM i developer community. It requires a minimum operating-system release level of IBM i 6.1. OmniFind also replaces the DB2 Text Extender product that is available on previous IBM i releases. Unlike its predecessor product, OmniFind is a no-charge product. Currently, the product must be ordered and installed separately. The OmniFind Text Search Server product identification number is 5733-OMF."

PDF available at

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/education/wp/1fe46/1fe46.pdf

It has google-like weighted search capabilities - very cool stuff. And did you notice, it is free? This adds functions to SQL, just like Text Extenders did/does.

HTH
Vern

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Talking out of complete ignorance here, truly, but does DB2 UDB Text Extenders mean anything? Out of curiosity I tried to search for that but wasn't having much luck.


Rob Berendt