Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC HELP needed. Installation and Education

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

Thanks for the clarification. IBM is really trying, I can see, to make this 
thing work.

In PDM, when I create a user option for a member, it can be run against an 
object with unpredictable results. Is that what you refer to in the second 
paragraph below?

A question - is there yet any way to get a mass search of source (and even 
data files), as I can do with PDM option 25? E.g., if I've a subset of 
PF-SRC in WRKOBJPDM, I can put 25 on them all (F13) and get all members in 
all files processed. And it'll take actions I define in the Search window, 
such as browse (5) or edit(2) or a user option. And optional output of the 
results. And in Edit, I can set up a search-and-replace in the first member 
found, and that setup is maintained throughout the rest of the search. The 
mass search in CODE was very weak, and it seems the same in RSE or WDSC 
generally. I use this enough that  I would miss it in a GUI tool, and I 
will go back to the green screen to do this every time, for now.

Anyway, I want to learn the new stuff but will go back to what I know, 
since I need to get work done. The rest will dome, with the help of folks 
such as you and others on this list.

BTW, I hope my response to Frank was reasonably balanced - pointers to 
things I've found helpful, as well as caveats abou the current 
implementation. I think I'm only a partial Luddite.   ;-)

Thanks again
Vern

At 10:52 AM 12/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Vern,
>
> You can perform user actions against multiple items.  However, what I
> think is an improvement over PDM, when you define the User Action you can
> specify whether it only applies to a single selection.  If you do this,
> then it will not be available if you select multiple items.
>
> I also like that you can tie actions specifically to objects or members as
> well as specfic object or member types.
>
> Mark