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Psychic Psearch – Search Engine for the IBM AS/400™
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER 2 : INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................ 6
PREPARATION ............................................................................................................................................. 6
DOWNLOAD FROM THE INTERNET ............................................................................................................... 6
RESTORE FROM TAPE ................................................................................................................................... 6
RESTORE FROM SAVE FILE ........................................................................................................................... 6
CHAPTER 3 : AUTHORIZATION CODE INPUT .................................................................................. 7
CHAPTER 4 : SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS..................................................................................... 9
CHAPTER 5 : OS/400 ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................ 10
CHAPTER 6 : GENERATION ................................................................................................................. 11
GENERATING A PSYCHIC PSEARCH SET..................................................................................................... 11
Starting a generation............................................................................................................................ 11
Field Selection...................................................................................................................................... 14
Redefine Fields..................................................................................................................................... 15
Panel/Report Formatting ..................................................................................................................... 16
Submitting the Generation Run ............................................................................................................ 18
Objects Generated................................................................................................................................ 20
Generation Reporting........................................................................................................................... 21
Problem Determination........................................................................................................................ 22
Regenerating an Existing Application.................................................................................................. 23
CHAPTER 7 : DATA INTERPRETATION ............................................................................................ 24
PSYCHIC PSEARCH MASTER MENU ........................................................................................................... 24
Special Character Handling................................................................................................................. 25
Special Character Recognition Rules .................................................................................................. 27
Character String Exclusion.................................................................................................................. 28
Index Rebuild ....................................................................................................................................... 30
Restarting Interrupted Index Rebuild................................................................................................................ 30
Search Synonyms (or “same as” searching)........................................................................................ 31
Keyword Reporting .............................................................................................................................. 34
Apply Synonym Updates....................................................................................................................... 35
Demand Index Update.......................................................................................................................... 36
Demand Index Update -Triggering Execution ..................................................................................... 38
Automatic Index Update....................................................................................................................... 39
CHAPTER 8 : USER'S GUIDE................................................................................................................. 40
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................... 40
PSYCHIC PSEARCH ON-LINE ..................................................................................................................... 41
On-line Processing Options for matching records............................................................................... 46
Using Generic Search .......................................................................................................................... 46
String Scanning .................................................................................................................................... 48
Keyword Help ...................................................................................................................................... 50
Display Keyword Occurrences ......................................................................................................................... 51
Keyword Reporting........................................................................................................................................... 52
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