Re: *** ADMIN: Search engine adjustments

David has been honored in the past at COMMON.

One thing great about this forum is that it doesn't lose it's history when
the underlying platform of choice gets changed out. Unlike various
communities IBM has come up with.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM Infodorado InfoDorado via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Instead of redundancy, consider this as a comment on the importance of
Ken's comment. The entire IBM i community and its predecessors and veterans
owes David Gibbs a great deal, and let me state here for COMMON (you
listening?) that they should do a special recognition for it. Or maybe they
have and I missed it?

Thanks and kudos to Ken Meade for the mention.
Honor to whom honor is due!

--Alan

On 06/04/2026 7:40 AM EDT Ken Meade via MIDRANGE-L <

midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A bit off topic, but ....

As I look towards retirement, I look back at those that have helped me

along the way. One of those tools that I used on a regular basis was this
forum.

Though I never posted a lot, I read these on a regular basis. There

were so many times I'd go back to coworkers with a 'Did you know??' or
'This could be our problem' based on things I've learned here. I am sure
there are many more like me that utilized this system on a regular basis,
that have never posted. He may never know the extent to which he has
assisted so many of us throughout the years.

We as a community owe so much to David for all the years he's maintained

this forum for us.

Just a reminder that David is a part of an affiliation program with

Amazon. Use this URL: https://amazon.midrange.com for your Amazon
purchases to help offset his costs.

Thank you David!

Ken Meade


-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2026 11:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cc: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: *** ADMIN: Search engine adjustments

Folks:

Just a FYI … I’ve made some adjustments to the search engine

configuration.

1. I disabled typo tolerance. I found that it was getting hits on words

that just don’t make sense. For example: I searched for “sonar” and it was
matching on “solar”.

2. I added a lot of terms to the dictionary and synonym list.
2.1 Terms like S/36, System/36, & S36, will all match for the same

search term.

2.2 Searching for “7.3” and “V7R3” will match the same.
2.3 Related to 2.2, I added mappings for all releases (1.1 to 7.6).
3. I also added a number of ’stop words’ (words that will be ignored by

the search engine) to avoid unnecessary matching on common words.

4. All administrative messages (like this one), and replies, will be

excluded.

If you encounter any problems with the search engine, or have

suggestions, please contact me PRIVATELY (david@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:
david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>).

david


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