Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

Dave,

It may be time for you to do a little CL program to create this. Here are
the steps:
1. prompt for the search string, and the libraries to be searched
2. call DSPOBJD OBJ(*ALL/*ALL) OBJTYPE(*FILE) to an outfile, or specify
the library(ies) to be searched
3. read the outfile, and run FNDSTRPDM for each file found
4. repeat step 3 until the end of the outfile

FNDSTRPDM has a lot of options as to what to do when it finds a matching
string, so you should prompt for this option, too. Among the options are
compile, print, rename, delete, Start SDA, Start RLU, etc. You can also
choose whether to prompt before performing these actions, or to perform
the action without prompting. I know that windows search allows multiple
options when you right click on a file found in it's search, but I don't
believe that it will perform them automatically. So when is Windows going
to add these options that an ancient green screen OS has?

Every operating system is a little different, each has different strengths
and weaknesses.

Steve

Steven Morrison
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Vern, et al,

I also tried FNDSTRPDM... you can only search one file at a time? Not
anything like a true global search function.

Again, where is this i5/OS equivalent of the Windoz global SEARCH
function?

Thanks,

Dave