Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Pete

Short answer - No!

What I've seen is that the QShell utilities work against those files that can be handled as stream files - Unix or DOS/Windows things. In the library/object realm, this means single-field physical files (data files NOT externally describied, created using RCDLEN, not DDS), and source physical files. I just verified this - was able to search in a PF-SRC but not in an externally-described PF - even if it were only 1 field in the format.

HTH
Vern

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From: Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

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> Well, the other day, I needed to find a table that contained a 
> particular ID. Something like: 
> grep "ABC123456789" * 
> Is it possible to do something like that in qsys.lib? Assume the 
> database tables have an unknown schema, and there are a bunch of them. I 
> played with it a little, and couldn't get it to work on v5.4. 
>
> Pete Hall 
> pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>
>
> Evan Harris wrote: 
> | Hi Peter 
> | 
> | What makes you think this can't be done ? I'm not suggesting you're 
> wrong - 
> | I'm just curious if you have an example of what you weren't able to find 
> | using it. 
> | 
> | Regards 
> | Evan Harris 
> | 
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> | From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> | [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Hall 
> | Sent: Saturday, 12 July 2008 12:44 p.m. 
> | To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion 
> | Subject: Re: Search OS/400 Physical Files 
> | 
> | I really like grep. Too bad it has no place in the database world. What 
> | a wonderful help it would be if we could use something like it to find 
> | where a specific text string lurked. Especially when trying to reverse 
> | engineer some 3rd party apps. 
> | 
> | Pete Hall 
> | pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> | 
> | 
> | vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> | | Ness Pazz dude! 
> | | 
> | | It should not be too hard to take some parameters - with wildcards - 
> | and resolve them with DSPOBJD to get a list of files to apply the 
> | FNDSTRPDM to - that'd be cool in REXX! 
> | | 
> | | Later 
> | | Vern 
> | | 
> | | -------------- Original message -------------- 
> | | From: "Dave Odom" 
> | | 
> | |> Vern, 
> | |> 
> | |> Now that's the succinct answer I was looking for. So, if I want it 
> green 
> | |> screen, have to build my own using REXX, perhaps, and FNDSTRPDM. 
> | |> 
> | |> But, it seems like my best, more modern bet is to see if I have WDSC 
> | around (I 
> | |> think so), install it on my PC and go crazy. Nes Pas? 
> | |> 
> | |> Thanks, 
> | |> 
> | |> Dave 
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