RE: *** ADMIN: Search engine adjustments

Instead of redundancy, consider this as a comment on the importance of Ken's comment. The entire IBM i community and its predecessors and veterans owes David Gibbs a great deal, and let me state here for COMMON (you listening?) that they should do a special recognition for it. Or maybe they have and I missed it? 

Thanks and kudos to Ken Meade for the mention.
Honor to whom honor is due!

--Alan


> On 06/04/2026 7:40 AM EDT Ken Meade via MIDRANGE-L <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> A bit off topic, but ....
> 
> As I look towards retirement, I look back at those that have helped me along the way. One of those tools that I used on a regular basis was this forum.
> 
> Though I never posted a lot, I read these on a regular basis.  There were so many times I'd go back to coworkers with a 'Did you know??' or 'This could be our problem' based on things I've learned here.  I am sure there are many more like me that utilized this system on a regular basis, that have never posted.  He may never know the extent to which he has assisted so many of us throughout the years.
> 
> We as a community owe so much to David for all the years he's maintained this forum for us.
> 
> Just a reminder that David is a part of an affiliation program with Amazon.   Use this URL:  https://amazon.midrange.com  for your Amazon purchases to help offset his costs.
> 
> Thank you David!
> 
> Ken Meade
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2026 11:32 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Gibbs <[email protected]>
> Subject: *** ADMIN: Search engine adjustments
> 
> Folks:
> 
> Just a FYI … I’ve made some adjustments to the search engine configuration.
> 
> 1. I disabled typo tolerance. I found that it was getting hits on words that just don’t make sense.  For example: I searched for “sonar” and it was matching on “solar”.
> 2. I added a lot of terms to the dictionary and synonym list.  
> 2.1 Terms like S/36, System/36, & S36, will all match for the same search term.
> 2.2 Searching for “7.3” and “V7R3” will match the same.
> 2.3 Related to 2.2, I added mappings for all releases (1.1 to 7.6).
> 3. I also added a number of ’stop words’ (words that will be ignored by the search engine) to avoid unnecessary matching on common words.
> 4. All administrative messages (like this one), and replies, will be excluded.
> 
> If you encounter any problems with the search engine, or have suggestions, please contact me PRIVATELY ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>).
> 
> david
> 
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