Re: Member filter issue...

Hi Peter

This was my thought, as well - in RSE we can also set wildcards for the libraries - I suspect that the other filter values are applied to each library that matches. I have a filter like this that covers around 15 libraries.

Is there a wildcard possible in F17? I've never tried - I've just put in the text I want to find anywhere in the description. So maybe the OP should just enter an asterisk to find an asterisk.

Cheers
Vern

On 7/3/2016 11:11 PM, Colpaert, Peter wrote:

Isn't this behaviour exactly the same as the F17 filters in good old PDM?

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-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: vrijdag 1 juli 2016 19:55
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Member filter issue...

On 7/1/2016 12:55 PM, CRPence wrote:

On 01-Jul-2016 10:08 -0500, Brian Johnson wrote:

Mouse or not... fabulous prize will be awarded (not!) for a filter
that selects members with member text that contains an asterisk.

Search the help text or docs for, if there exists support for, an
/escape/ character in that context.

Perfectly sensible advice. Here's what F1 tells me:
'Use this dialog to change your filter. Filters can contain one or more filter strings. In the Remote Systems view, when a filter is expanded, the results of resolving all the strings are concatenated together. Use this dialog to add additional strings, and to order, delete or change the strings. Use the context menu on a string for additional actions.'

Some nomenclature explanation might help.
On the left are a list of named 'things' called 'Filter strings'. Each of these named objects contains an assortment of search / filter criteria. In order, these are:

Library
File
Member filter
Member text

The behaviour for the top two (Library and File) are close to what IBM i programmers expect of IBM i commands accepting generic names. Filtering on Library QGPL, File Q* would return all the files beginning with Q in library QGPL.

The member filter behaves a bit differently. It takes a pattern somewhat reminiscent of OPNQRYF. Let's say that my chosen source file has members named EXAMPLE1 through EXAMPLE38 as well as one member named EXPAT_H, one named HTTPXMLR4, and one named XMLSTUBR4. I could filter for all the members beginning with EX by putting EX* in the Member filter. I could filter for all the members containing an X somewhere in their name by using *X*. I could find all the members ending with a 3 by using *3.

The Member text behaves different to the prior two. It does an implicit wildcard search. So putting in EX gives me all the EXAMPLE members as well as the EXPAT_H member. There are two special values allowed: * (for don't restrict the search) and *BLANK, which returns a list of members not having text specified.

The documentation is... a work in progress. The support portal has links to Rational Developer for i documentation, but of course the resolved page is the AIX / Linux version. I'm sure Developerworks have a working link but finding the right place in DW takes more cognitive energy than I have to spare at the moment. Oh, and the help within the product throws an HTTP 500 error. A reboot of my PC will probably cure that but I can't really send my time down that rabbit hole. It's a little crazy when it takes longer to restart my PC than to restart the IBM i operating system, but it looks I've reached the pinnacle of my career.

So once again, everything I think I know comes from empirical evidence; actually trying it out.

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