Source code searching

[sbcguard]

Not really an issue but a question/idea. Currently in RDi, we use iSphere to search source code. Is there something similar to that in Code for i, or plans for something like that. I work in a lot of older COBOL programs and the like, and the source code search is often valuable in finding where a program is called from and various other quick search needs. Thanks, AJ

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Context	Version
Code for IBM i version	2.10.4
Visual Studio Code version	1.89.1
Operating System	win32_x64

Active extensions

``` COBOL (cobol): 10.5.29 Code Runner (code-runner): 0.12.2 Code Spell Checker (code-spell-checker): 3.0.1 Code for IBM i Walkthroughs (vscode-ibmi-walkthroughs): 0.5.0 CodeTour (codetour): 0.0.59 Db2 for IBM i (vscode-db2i): 1.0.0 ES7+ React/Redux/React-Native snippets (es7-react-js-snippets): 4.4.3 ESLint (vscode-eslint): 2.4.4 EditorConfig for VS Code (EditorConfig): 0.16.4 Emmet (emmet): 1.0.0 Error Lens (errorlens): 3.18.0 Git (git): 1.0.0 Git Base (git-base): 1.0.0 Git Project Manager (git-project-manager): 1.8.2 GitHub (github): 0.0.1 GitHub Authentication (github-authentication): 0.0.2 GitLens — Git supercharged (gitlens): 15.0.4 IBM i Debug (ibmidebug): 1.0.0 JSON Language Features (json-language-features): 1.0.0 Live Server (LiveServer): 5.7.9 Live Share (vsliveshare): 1.0.5918 Material Icon Theme (material-icon-theme): 5.3.0 Merge Conflict (merge-conflict): 1.0.0 Microsoft Account (microsoft-authentication): 0.0.1 Node Debug Auto-attach (debug-auto-launch): 1.0.0 Prettier - Code formatter (prettier-vscode): 10.4.0 TODO Highlight (vscode-todo-highlight): 1.0.5 Tabnine AI (tabnine-vscode): 3.104.0 TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features (typescript-language-features): 1.0.0 ```

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Remote system

|Setting|Value| |-|-| |IBM i OS|n/a| |Tech Refresh|n/a| |CCSID Origin|65535| |Runtime CCSID|65535| |Default CCSID|37| |SQL|Enabled |Source dates|Disabled ### Enabled features |/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin|/usr/bin|/QSYS.lib/ILEDITOR.lib||/QSYS.LIB|/QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin| |-|-|-|-|-|-| |bash|attr|GETNEWLIBL.PGM|ILEDITOR.GETMBRINFO|QZDFMDB2.PGM|startDebugService.sh| |git|iconv||||| |grep|setccsid||||| |ls|||||| |md5sum|||||| |sort|||||| |stat|||||| |tar||||||

Shell env

```bash ```

Variants

```json { "american": "#@$", "local": "#@$" } ```

Errors

```json [ { "command": "/QOpenSys/usr/bin/qsh", "code": 1, "stderr": "CPF2111: Library ILEDITOR already exists.", "cwd": "/home/ITAJ" }, { "command": "export BUILDLIB=\"BC001\" && export CURLIB=\"BC001\" && export USERNAME=\"ITAJ\" && export HOST=\"BOONEDEV\" && export HOME=\"/home/ITAJ\" && export WORKDIR=\"/home/ITAJ\" && export LIBLS=\"TAATOOL QGPL QGDDM QTEMP RVILIB RVICUST MMAIL BC001 ITA05\" && env", "code": 1, "stderr": "bsh: BUILDLIB=BC001: is not an identifier", "cwd": "/home/ITAJ" }, { "command": "export BUILDLIB=\"BC001\" && export CURLIB=\"BC001\" && export USERNAME=\"ITAJ\" && export HOST=\"BOONEDEV\" && export HOME=\"/home/ITAJ\" && export WORKDIR=\"/home/ITAJ\" && export LIBLS=\"TAATOOL QGPL QGDDM QTEMP RVILIB RVICUST MMAIL BC001 ITA05\" && env", "code": 1, "stderr": "bsh: BUILDLIB=BC001: is not an identifier", "cwd": "/home/ITAJ" } ] ```

[sebjulliand]

Could this be what you're looking for?

[sbcguard]

Eh, not exactly, with the RDi iSphere source file search you can specify the LIB you want to search in, or search all libs. That will only look for references within that source member.

[sbcguard]

For example,

This will search all libraries and all source members for a value