Re: Painfully slow searching

Joe

If by auto-open you mean putting a 5 on the Option field, yes, this DOES open the first member found - and every subsequent one when you hit Enter. Plus, if you hit F16, it repeats the search within the open member. You can also put a 2 there - I'm talking about the prompt from the 25 PDM option, not the actual FNDSTRPDM command.

I use searches for figuring out where things are used, or what I might have to add to a task, in lieu of a cross-reference tool, which we do not have. This has been adequate. And I use the iSeries search, which is really FNDSTRPDM under the covers.

It might be that the O.P. was using the Eclipse search - if so, that is really a bad way to go.

Now if I go nuts and search against all the source files in a product's source libraries, well, I deserve what I get! I'm running against a 270 over a 10/100 network - even then I get results in a very few minutes.

Later
Vern

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From: Joe Pluta joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Tim's original post was about searching 98 members in a filter. If you
really are doing a mass search, don't use a filter, search the whole
file. Tim also mentioned the auto-open in PDM, and that's not exactly
an apples-to-apples comparison, because auto-open only searches to the
first hit, whereas an RDi search always searches all the members and
returns the results.

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