Re: Find/Replace in multiple source members

Yeah, it would be nice. I find that there are things in WRK* screens and PDM that have an equivalent in, say, Navigator or RDi but don't have the same design feature of handling multiple items easily. This PDM thing is surprising how easy it is after the 1st couple of steps. Things like WRKSPLF let you apply a set of parameters to all the selected items - this generally is not done in the clients like Access for IBM i or Remote Systems Explorer, often those will prompt you for values for each selected item - NOT always, mind you!

Cheers
Vern

On 2/27/2018 12:49 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:

Thanks... just thought it should be easy in RDi.

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Find/Replace in multiple source members

Hi Greg

I don't know about in RDi - I've used PDM to do something like this - there are a couple hopscotch steps, of course!

1. Assuming all are in the same source file, select the members with option 25 on each member 2. Press enter 3. On the prompt you see,
    a. Put in your old program name in the search field
    b. Make the edit option a 2
4. Press enter again
5. IN the first source member, press F14
    a Put the new program name in the replace field
    b. Change occurrences to process to a 2 for All
    c. Check that you allow data shift
    d. Press F17 to do the changes
    e. Press F3, then Enter to save
6. For each subsequent members, press F17, then F3, then Enter to change and save the changes

There - EZ-PZ - I don't think iSphere has this functionality, although it could be a cool feature to add.

And there still ARE some very strong capabilities in PDM!

I've not tried this in the PDM options part of RDi, however - who knows?
It might be doable there, as well, and that'd be very cool!

HTH
Vern

On 2/27/2018 10:48 AM, Greg Wilburn wrote:

Seems like I should know this...

Is there a way to find replace a text string in multiple source members within the same member filter?

I need to change a program call (CLP) in 25 or so members, then recompile. Seems like there should be a way to do that.

Greg

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