Installing the context-aware search tool

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The context-aware search tool helps you find information in your code that is based on free text searches. When you configure the context-aware search tool, you must install, define, and start a context-aware search engine, and then configure your search parameters. The context-aware search engine manages the search index, as defined by your search parameters.

Note: To configure and run a search engine, you must have a Developer for IBM® Enterprise Platforms client access license (CAL).

The context-aware search engine requires an IBM Java™ run time environment (JRE) compatible with Java 1.8.

The minimum amount of memory recommended for running the context-aware search engine is 512 MB. Performance improves if you can allocate more memory to its process. To change the memory settings, change the -Xmx parameter in the BLZWASE JCL. The default value is 1300M, which allocates a maximum of 1300 MB for the Java heap size.

The amount of required disk-space depends on the number of indexed components and on the number of files in those components.

For a video demonstration of the context-aware search tool, see Context-Aware Search for source code using semantic analysis of related artifacts.