6.26 I have a job in which I am trying to locate specific text in any file in a file set. Originally, I used just @.@.@. However, the search seemed to hang on a certain file. Any ideas?

The culprit is probably a message file.

Message files are notorious for causing this sort of thing with search programs. If they are opened with default access/options you'll be suspended as a "reader" waiting on a "writer" to post something to the file and you won't get an EOF condition.