DSXchange

When Viewing data from seq file stage, sometimes I need to find a piece of data.. the problem is, when the file is huge, "Find ..." dialog box became "Not Responding.."

any clean way to cancel out from there?
so far, i have to clean up into dsadmin & kill the processes

thanks
HandyT

There is no clean way of breaking out of this. I've been frustrated many a time when I made a metadata error and ended up waiting 10-15 minutes for a "view data" to return the 1st row back to me but needs to read to the end of a large file. This would make a good enhancement request.

You either need to have a lot of patience and just wait it out or give it the old 'three finger salute' and kill the sucker.

Why not write a small job, which filters out the data from the file. Put the desired constraint, say Col1 = Value1, and create a new output file.

I use this approach instead of waiting for "Not responding" to become "Responding"