Advanced find search

With the advanced find feature, you can search for project assets by selecting the assets’ types, specifying properties or keywords that the assets contain.

To enable Advanced find, you need to configure a connection to manage the DataStage repository and enable asset indexing. In your project, go to the Manage > DataStage tab of your project, and select Enable asset indexing option in the Repository section.

After you enable the Advanced find option, go to the overflow menu of the DataStage assets page and click the icon next to your asset to open the Advanced find search.

In the advanced find search you can find different kinds of assets and the number of assets types that your project contains. You can filter your assets based on the types of assets, the properties of the assets, or if the assets contain a specific value, an option, a derivation, or a parameter.

After you specify your query, the advanced find displays all the indexed assets with the specified properties. You can select one or more asset types for your search. In the Results column, you can open a side panel for more details about the assets that match your search. Click the name of the asset that contains the specified properties to open the flow directly on the DataStage canvas.

For example, you can check what stages from your flows move all input columns to the output link. Select the IBM Db2® stage and the forward_row_data property. Choose the Equals(=) statement and specify it as true in the keyword field. When you open the selected flow, you can see that the Forward row data option in the Db2 stage is set to true.