From the Seiden SmartSupport mailbag: One issue I keep coming across is the inability to search for text in source members across all libraries. We use a commercial tool, but it is expensive and cumbersome. Coming from the Linux world, where I can “grep” for anything, I find this a ridiculous restriction. Long term, try to move your source code to the IFS. Until then: you can, indeed, search source members for text using grep. Use the correct grep command To search source members, it’s important to use Qshell’s version of grep, which understands native EBCDIC encoding. In other words,...
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