Re: Searching members for strings

Phil,

I just discovered and used this feature last week.  It is really great, I 
will just add a few points.

1)  When you take the Search option in the IDE a dialog comes up with a 
number of tabs that let you perform different types of searches.  If you 
do not see "iSeries Search" as one of the tabs.  Click the Advanced button 
on the bottom of the dialog.  This will let you "enable" that tab.

2)  If you have a member filter selected in RSE when you take the search 
option, the dialog comes up already filled in with some of the criteria 
from that filter.  So say you have a filter to see all members in source 
file QRPGLESRC in PRODSRC.  If you select that filter and choose the 
Search option, those values will be filled in for you and you can then 
just type in the text you want to search for.

I really like how the search results come in a window that shows the 
line(s) of code that the search found.  You can then just double-click to 
open the source to that point.

A great implementation!

Mark










"Phil Coulthard" <coulthar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Fyi, there has been a few posts about this. In the CODE editor we have a
Windows->Multi File Search action that allows you to search for a given
string across multiple members. This is basically a GUI interface to
FNDSTRPDM, and the resulting list is double-clickable to open and position
to the hit. There is also a similar interface from CPO.

With FixPak 1 of WDSC 5.0, this capability is not in WDSC too. To activate
it,
click on the flashlight in the toolbar. You will see a tab named iSeries
Search,
which allows you to specify a scalar or generic library name, file name 
and
member name to search against. Of course, it supports case-sensitivity and
column-restricted searches.

Does this meet your needs? If not, let us know and we will fix it.

One thing we intend to add is a popup search action that will search 
within
the
selected members, or source files. One reason we haven't yet is that
FNDSTRPDM
itself does not support being given a list of members or files to search
... until
recently. I don't konw how many noticed, but we created a new FNDSTRPDM2
command for just this purpose, which we will be exploiting from the 
client.

Hope this helps, and keep the ideas coming.

Phil Coulthard, STSM, iSeries AD,  IBM Canada Ltd. coulthar@xxxxxxxxxxx

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