RE: AS400 RPG Scanning Question

[michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

ok...I'll get it to you in a day or so.

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:14:44 -0500, "Dwayne Allison"
<Dwayne.Allison@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> I got a brief idea in mind of what you did.  If you like you can send it?
> 
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> I did this iterative thing where I scanned all the source members for
> certain 'words' that were in another file. If I found the word(s), I
> wrote out the lines (and the name of the member and stuff) to yet
> another file. You could then query it or whatever. I'll send it to you
> if you want. It will take me a couple of days though.
> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:57 -0500, "Dwayne Allison"
> <Dwayne.Allison@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > How did you do it?  Sound like something we all can use?
> > 
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> > 
> > I wrote a utility to do that...clunky, but it works.
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:25:58 -0500, "Drew, Ronald"
> > <RDrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > Does anyone out there know of any utility available that can look at an
> > > AS400 program directory, scan the RPG code and return results of only the
> > > programs that have specific criteria back?  We have 5,200 RPG programs
> > > and I
> > > bet at least 4,000 are just reports.  We have 4900 files of which I
> > > believe
> > > at least 3500 are no longer used.  The environment has been built over
> > > many
> > > years and nothing has been purged.  I now want to upgrade to a non-green
> > > screen environment but want to purge the out stuff not being used.  So I
> > > want to scan the code and look for the programs that only match criteria
> > > such as a printer for output.  Do you know of any utility or can you
> > > point
> > > me in the right direction?
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > I have asked IBM and a friendly rep advised using DSPPGMREF (Display
> > > Program
> > > References) creating an output file and then downloading it to the PC for
> > > investigating.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any other ideas?
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Ron Drew
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
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