Customizing the Search Assistant

You can customize the Search Assistant to suit your needs by setting some options in the Workspace Options and User Preferences that you can access from the Options menu.

Setting Search Assistant options in the Workspace Options

There are two options that you can set in Options > Workspace Options > Search Assistant:

  • Maximum number of results to display. The default is 10,000.
  • Timeout for displaying a complete set of results. It is configured in seconds and the default is 60 seconds.

Setting Search Assistant options in the User Preferences

From the Search Assistant tab in Options > User Preferences you can set the following options:

  • Select the type of the objects that will be shown in the search results. The available types are: all legacy, system program, program entry point, data store, table, transaction and ADABAS file.
  • Include hypercode objects. Depending on the source type, you can select different types of hypercode entities. The table below displays the available source code types and their corresponding hypercode objects.
    Source type Hypercode entity
    COBOL file
    • Declaration
    • Paragraph
    • Variable
    JCL file Data set
    Natural file
    • Declaration
    • Variable
    PL/I file
    • Declaration
    • Variable
    RPG file
    • Declaration
    • Variable

    By default, declaration is selected for COBOL, Natural and PL/I files.

Parent topic: Using the Search Assistant