Search for a string in members of a PDS

[adam-wolfe]

Is your feature or enhancement request related to a problem or limitation? Please describe

Zowe CLI and Explorer users do not have an automated way to search for a string in members of a PDS. Currently, the only options are to download the entire PDS to a local hard drive and perform a search locally or go into ISPF and perform a SRCHFOR operation there.

Describe your enhancement idea

It would be useful to have something similar to the zowe jobs search job command but for PDSs. Ideally, this functionality could eventually be used by Zowe Explorer, where users are more likely to be interacting directly with their data sets.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Download and search locally (requires downloading an entire PDS, which may be undesirable in terms of network/disk usage and time)
• ISPF (fast, but requires the user to log in to a 3270 terminal)
• Submitting JCL to perform a search (fast, but requires updating JCL for each search)

Provide any additional context

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[adam-wolfe]

Implemented by #2121.