Re: [WDSCI-L] Searching members for strings

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil, glad you're looking at this. The limitation for me is that I cannot 
look in more than one source file in CODE. Calling it "multi-file" seems a 
misnomer - it's actually "multiple member" - unless I missed something - 
could be!

My need is to search in the members of many source files, in one atomic 
"operation". PDM allows this, by F17 to filter on PF-SRC object type, then 
25 + F13. The search criteria are applied to all members in turn.

Is this possible? Can I set a file filter in RSE, select all the files, 
then search, and all members come up, in turn, preferably (I think - cuz 
that's what I'm used to<g>) or with the hits and the ability to browse or 
edit, as CODE has now.

I've ordered v5 - looking forward to it.

Thanks

Vern

At 08:19 AM 5/13/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Fyi, there has been a few posts about this. In the CODE editor we have a
> Windows->Multi File Search action that allows you to search for a given
> string across multiple members. This is basically a GUI interface to
> FNDSTRPDM, and the resulting list is double-clickable to open and position
> to the hit. There is also a similar interface from CPO.
>
> With FixPak 1 of WDSC 5.0, this capability is not in WDSC too. To activate
> it,
> click on the flashlight in the toolbar. You will see a tab named iSeries
> Search,
> which allows you to specify a scalar or generic library name, file name and
> member name to search against. Of course, it supports case-sensitivity and
> column-restricted searches.
>
> Does this meet your needs? If not, let us know and we will fix it.
>
> One thing we intend to add is a popup search action that will search within
> the
> selected members, or source files. One reason we haven't yet is that
> FNDSTRPDM
> itself does not support being given a list of members or files to search
> ... until
> recently. I don't konw how many noticed, but we created a new FNDSTRPDM2
> command for just this purpose, which we will be exploiting from the client.
>
> Hope this helps, and keep the ideas coming.
>
> Phil Coulthard, STSM, iSeries AD,  IBM Canada Ltd. coulthar@xxxxxxxxxxx