Re: find syntax for pf’s

hi Frank

Basically, no, you can't with SQL - not easily for what you want, I think.

Of the options I looked at and mentioned, I see only a program that gets the list of all PFs - could be done with SQL service object_statistics or something like that - the for each file you get, do something like this -

FNDSTRPDM STRING('search-string')
          FILE(LIBNAME/FILENAME)
          MBR(*ALL)
          OPTION(*NONE)
          PRTRCDS(*ALL)

You'll get lots of SPLF - although you MIGHT be able to do an OVRDBF to point whatever PRTF it puts out at some kind of PF, maybe one created not from source. I don't remember if there's an *ADD option on the override.

Then lots of lines NOT to look at, right?

I'm just taking an off-the-cuff shot at how to do all this - test, verify, see what works, eh?

And I hope someone else has a better idea!

Regards
Vern

On 2/24/2021 3:21 PM, frank boke wrote:

yes i am looking to see what files contain a certain string...actually a
name...Is it possible to use SQL for that?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:15 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:30 AM Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Although this is very useful, I think the original poster is looking for
contents of the columns, not just column names.
Have I missed something?

Niels did say you could use regular expressions and SQL to search

*any* library/file/field (or schema/table/column). I think his example

was chosen to do double duty:



1. Shows how to use regular expression search *in general* (because

you could substitute any schema in place of QSYS2, any table in place

of SYSCOLUMNS, and any column in place of COLUMN_NAME).



2. Reminds us that we can get a lot of information from SYSCOLUMNS

(and the system catalog in general), which could help us if we are

trying to search for something and we either don't know the names of

the columns (or whatever) beforehand, or we have a lot to search (so

we can use the catalog info to help us build a script for the task).



John Y.

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