Re: Scan Message File in WDSC?

Thanks for your suggestion, Bruce. I agree that this defeats the purpose of
a GUI IDE, but if there's no other solution I might play with it.

The tool does not create a spooled report. It just displays to the screen.

I was kind of hoping there would be a native function in WDSCI (like
searching in [multiple] source members) that I missed, or that someone else
had already written a plugin.

If not, I would definitely add it to the wish list.

Until then I'll just keep logging into a green screen session for it.

Robbin D. Knapp, IT
Artweger GmbH. & Co., Sulzbach 159, 4820 Bad Ischl, Austria
http://www.artweger.at

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 25.08.2005 17:10:19:

> Robbin:
>
> <snip>
> We once inherited a nice little tool from one of our former external
> software developers called Scan Message File (SCNMSGF). You enter the
> message file, library and text to search, and it displays all the
> messages
> that contain the text, one on each line.
>
> Anyone know how to accomplish the same thing in WDSC?
>
> Please don't say I should write a plug-in. I want to save time
> developing
> applications, not spend it developing tools :-)
>
> </snip>
>
>
> You should write a plugin!  <g>
>
> OK, seriously...
>
> If the tool displays a green screen, you need to start the RSE server
> (STRRSESVR) on a 5250 session and dedicate that session to results of
> interactive commands executed from WDSc.  IMHO this defeats the purpose
> of using a GUI IDE, but that is a topic unto itself.
>
> If the tool creates a spooled file report, you can create a User Action
> to execute the command.  From there you can use the plugin from
> SoftLanding to view the spooled file in a text editor window.
>
> I wish there was a better solution (maybe someone else has already found
> one) but to my knowledge there is no way to execute an interactive
> command from within WDSc (with results displaying on a 5250 screen)
> other than the above.  IIRC V4.0 had a built-in 5250 session of some
> kind (I never used it) but it was scrapped with future releases.  It
> seems to me that IBM could/should find a way to redirect 5250 output
> back to a WDSc window/view.
>
> Perhaps Jon could add this to his wish list?
>
> Hope this helps,
> --Bruce Guetzkow