W?LDC*RDS Overview
Powerful File Finder From Your CANDE session

The Problem

Have you ever had trouble locating a file you created?

• You can't remember the exact name or the directory where you saved it
• Maybe you know part of its name
• Maybe you know approximately when you saved it
• Perhaps you know some of its file attributes – like whether it is a COBOL85 source file

But you cannot find it.

Our Solution

ICD Group's W?LDC*RDS allows you to locate your files using both wildcarded filenames and file characteristics. And it allows you to do much more.

With W?LDC*RDS you can:

• select files using file attributes
• combine both wildcard and attribute selection
• use partial file attributes in selection (see Example below)
• create a WFL deck
• do it all with CANDE's LFILES command or a WFL job
• interactively or automatically remove files
• use wildcard characters in Usercodes and Pack names
• install it by simply copying our modified SYSTEM/FILEDATA
• use the same wildcard characters you use on your PC

Using W?LDC*RDS

Our simple additions to CANDE's LFILES command make it a more powerful File Finder. And our changes follow the LFILES command format.

A few examples will give you an idea of the flexibility and power of our additions.

Just remember for these examples that the file attributes you want to see and our options are recognized after the appearance of the colon (:).