Re: Painfully slow searching

Tim Gornall wrote:

In Remote Systems view, when I do a find string on a member filter, it is
painfully slow. It took minutes for 98 members.

Searching a filters is slower than searching files, because searching a filter does it one member at a time.

In PDM, it takes seconds for hundreds of members.

A client/server function is going to be slower than one which is entirely on the host. Always. With search, you have to perform the entire search, then download the results to the workstation. There's no real way to speed it up other than searching the entire file which reduces the interactions between the client and the server.

And I can auto open them for edit, etc.

You can open them one at a time, in the order they appear in the file, without context, and then use F16 to search through each file to see the other occurrences. I never liked that, although it's the best you can get with PDM.

With the RDi search, you see all the occurrences in every member, in context, and can double-click on the ones you want to open the file to that source line. It's a somewhat different concept.

You can also search across multiple libraries and files, but it's not at 5250 speed.

Am I missing something, there must be a better way...

If what you're interested in is getting to the first member in a file that has a match on a string, or printing a list of matches in a file, then PDM is faster because it's entirely on the host. If you are interested in reviewing all the matches in a set of members and then opening the members based on context, then RDi is a better tool.

Joe