Re: Searching members for strings

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