RE: Search OS/400 Physical Files

Al,

INDEED. A simple relational database implementation, with the AS/400
Query, or SQL/400, and/or SQL in Net.data is extremely powerful!

Don

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Subject: Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

Check out PDM-25

We normally use PDM for software development, unless you on
CODE/whatever nowadays, but PDM can access just about any type of object
on the 400, then you can use PDM-25 to search for stuff, or PDM-54 to
compare two similar objects.

With SQL/400 and RPG/400 we can in fact search for strings.

I use the LIKE function of Query/400 so my engineers can search for
stuff inside of descriptions, like NUT BOLT SCREW etc. ... there's a
word they interested in & they want to find out what items have that
word some place in their description.

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:20:27 -0700, Dave Odom wrote

Seems like the native OS "find" capabilities are WAYYY outdated and
not anything like the Windoz Search function. And it also sounds
like one must depend on utilities created for other OS's or some other

vendor's tools to accomplish a simple global function like search
global for a string which is native in most other OS's. If true, it
doesn't bode well for the IBM i. How sad.

Dave
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