RE: Search OS/400 Physical Files

it's not a "show-stopper" to me. i wrote a tool to scan through multiple
libraries using FNDSTRPDM years ago. it's not ideal by any means but it
does what i need to do. if you need to search through PFs then that's a
whole different ball game...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
07/10/2008 02:56 PM
Subject:
RE: Search OS/400 Physical Files



Tommy,

As I suspected as a set of modern native functions.

FWIW, with that said, the OS COULD be enhanced to have more modern
functions, native. I understand there are other vendors with more modern
products that enhance and perhaps that's the real answer. Having worked
for IBM, I understand they often build products with good solid basics and
then let vendor's do the fluffy stuff that everyone likes, as is the case
with folks like Platinum and BMC in the mainframe world. But, I don't
think the IBM i can afford to be that cavalier as its not the platform
most CIOs nor CTOs think of when they are looking to buy a technology
platform for their business. And, this is a shame because the IBM i has
a wonderful TCO and other positive attributes but that gets lost in its
old legacy look and feel. I know IBM is working on this, to some extent,
but I don't think to enough of an extent if they hope to see the IBM i as
a product for the long term.

Thanks,

Dave