Re: AW: Full-text searching

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob

I have a feeling that "replace" means that OmniFind does the same thing 
but better. Not that Text Extenders is not available. It was Kent's 
wording, and I've heard his presentation on it. OmniFind definitely 
gives you a lot more functionality.

Here is a presentation on both products, as well as WebQuery and Query 
for i - *http://tinyurl.com/yb84ech*

In Kent's article that Birgitta and I both mentioned, he says that you 
can search things not in tables, quoted here -

"As mentioned earlier, the OmniFind Text Search server also has the 
ability to index and search text data that is not stored in a DB2 for i 
table."

It takes a UDF and some other work but lets you work with files in the 
IFS like Open Office, Acrobat, and Word documents, not just html or text 
files. It takes a bit more planning and regular updating of search 
indexes but seems very cool.

Hey, it's a 6.1 thing - gotta go get it, man!!

HTH
Vern

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Let me get this straight, in 6.1 this:
> Resource 
>    ID     Option  Feature  Description
> 5761DE1   *BASE    5050    DB2 Extenders 
> 5761DE1   *BASE    2924    DB2 Extenders 
> 5761DE1   1        5050    DB2 Text Extender 
> 5761DE1   1        2924    DB2 Text Extender 
> 5761DE1   2        5050    DB2 XML Extender 
> 5761DE1   2        2924    DB2 XML Extender 
> 5761DE1   3        5050    Text Search Engine
> 5761DE1   3        2924    Text Search Engine
> (with other detail)
> Resource                   Feature 
>    ID     Option  Feature   Type    Library     Release
> 5761DE1   *BASE    5050     *CODE   QDBEX       V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   *BASE    2924     *LNG    QDBEX       V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   1        5050     *CODE   QDB2TX      V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   1        2924     *LNG    QDB2TX      V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   2        5050     *CODE   QDBXM       V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   2        2924     *LNG    QDBXM       V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   3        5050     *CODE   QIMO        V6R1M0
> 5761DE1   3        2924     *LNG    QIMO        V6R1M0
>
> will be replaced by 5733-OMF?  Seems odd that IBM would have refreshed 
> this 5761DE1 to 6.1 if they were replacing it.  And in infocenter there 
> were no hits for "omni find" and the only hit for OMF was for some 
> discussion on import libraries and Object Model Format.  But, sometime 
> I'll take a look at that link.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
>