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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 6, 2012

Provide more meaningful statistics from the FM Find/Change Utility

In the example presented to customers in our training. We issued a F THIS and THAT. The statistics that come back do show that 4 RECORDS matched the criteria, however the cusotmer questions why the statistics show 100+ hits on THIS and 20+ hits on THAT, but do not specifically show how many hits are THIS and THAT in the same area.

--+----10---+----2----+----3----+----4----+
-- Find/Change summary section --
Records found: 4 Records processed: 5231
Members w/recs: 4 Members wo/recs: 74
ISPF packing option: ASIS
JCL Search Cols: 3:71
Non-JCL Search cols: 1:80
Longest record: 80
Edit options in effect: CAPS:OFF

Count Value
Found : 101 >THIS<
Found : 22 >THAT<

A suggested result would look like:

--+----10---+----2----+----3----+----4----+
-- Find/Change summary section --
Number of Records found meeting criteria: 4
Total Number of Records processed: 5231
Number of Members which met criterial (w/recs): 4
Number of Members which did not meet criteria (wo/recs): 74
ISPF packing option: ASIS
JCL Search Cols: 3:71
Non-JCL Search cols: 1:80
Longest record: 80
Edit options in effect: CAPS:OFF

Summary Count Value
Command Issued: F THIS and THAT

Found : 101 >THIS<
Found : 22 >THAT<
Found : 4 > THIS and THAT <

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jun 16, 2020

    This is being closed due to age. If this is still a concern please raise a new RFE.

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM File Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM File Manager