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Evan Harris wrote:
Yes, it runs in QSH. I don't know what that should be a problem.
I don't know either since QSH is a part of 5722SS1 (and related ones
on later/earlier versions.)
In any case, the thread subject refers to "Physical Files". One
/possible/ direction that has been around a long time could involve
using the QLGSORT API to present output in a buffer. By stepping
through the buffer (with attention to the length of the 'search
string' and possibly other elements such as CCSIDs), the QCLSCAN API
could determine if the string was found.
QLGSORT can be called for pretty much any PF. The 'sort' request can
be adjusted dynamically based on the attributes of the file that's
currently being processed. It could be called for each PF in a list
of PFs. The 'sorting' is actually irrelevant when just looking for a
string, so any sort-sequencing would do.
Obviously, QCLSCAN is just a commonly recognized API. There are many
other possibilities if we want to go beyond just OPM CL which
wouldn't support sufficiently large buffer sizes to be really decent.
Overall, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to create so that it works
reasonably reliably.
Wasn't there something called Net.Question, or similar, at one time
that could create search indexes over text fields? Or did that only
apply to streamfiles?
Tom Liotta
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