Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

Pat

You can't give this API a file name that I know of - Dave is looking for something to search physical files from a list like one of the PDM things or form WRKF - which has none of this, either.

QCLSCAN is, however, wonderful for searching in variables - and could be used to write a search app for files, it seems.

Regards
Vern

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From: Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

From a programming standpoint, here is another way,
which has been around since the beginning.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/apis/qcls
can.htm

CRPence wrote:

Shannon ODonnell wrote:

Does anyone know of a utility that will allow you to do a generic
search of OS/400 one or more physical files (singly or all at once)
for records containing a particular character string?

I'm thinking of something like the Windows Search function which
allows you to search for files containing a string within them.

I wonder if one of the unix-type commands I could run in Qshell would
have something that would work.

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