RE: Search OS/400 Physical Files

Again, PDM 25 comes to the rescue - you can enter the hex representation for packed data and it will find it. I'm not sure the WDSC iSeries search will do this - have not tried it.

And you can run opt 25 against several files and/or members - and you get to choose what to do when you find the search item - from *DSP to many others - prompt FNDSTRPDM for the options

Man, I feel like a broken record - and very cracked!!!

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From: Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx>

If this is just a one time thing and its character data you're looking for you
could copy the file to *PRINT and then search the spool file. Packed data would
not be searchable and if the string happened to break between lines it would not
be found but this might be the fastest way to find what you're looking for

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Pat Barber
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

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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