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Overview

You use the Inspect facility to search a knowledge base (KB) for items based on their type, class, attributes, and location. You can use the Inspect facility to:

Show short representations of items on the Inspect workspace
Display the class, module, workspace, invocation, and method hierarchies
Create a file containing the definitions of items
Go directly to a particular item in the knowledge base
Display a representation of an item's table on a workspace
Replace and highlight text in the knowledge base
Check for consistent modularization
Recompile specific items

You can also apply a variety of filter expressions to limit the search when inspecting classes of items.

Once the Inspect facility has located the item(s), you can interact with the item in a variety of ways, including going to the item, displaying the item's table, and describing the item.

The Inspect facility runs in the background, which means you can launch multiple searches simultaneously, and users can access the KB while the search is underway.

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