Re: Indexing a flat file

My first thought on this was to use STRSQL
with a command like
select * from YOURLIB/QRPGLESRC
but then I remembered the problem that SQL has in recognizing multi-member
files.
However, it may still give someone else a seed for thought.



Alan Shore

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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/27/2007 11:02:04 AM:

Hi,

I'm looking for a utility that would index a file having a few field
and escpecially one that contains all sorts of data and needs several
formats to read it depending on another field's value.

In fact, to tell you everything, we have a huge file containing all our
source code from every program we have.
We use this file to lookup some variables or fields usage in our
programs.
This is necessary to avoid time consuming searches with PDM and because
we still have some old OCL36 procedures (yes we still have those "state
of the art" oldies...)

So our problem is that this file is so huge that a SELECT LIKE request
takes about 5 minutes for each request. To make subselects is simply
out of the picture right now.

So we are looking for a tool that would index the SRCDTA field from our
megafile and build a file that let's us easily lookup any value that
would appear in our source code.

The file has 13 million records and it keeps growing.

Or, if anybody has another way to lookup source code without having to
use Hawkeye or PDM, and that would not take forever to load, just let me
know.

Thanks guys, and keep the good work!!!




Pascal Bellerose
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