RE: Comparing 2 printouts (before and after) ?

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

You are right on the money with your procedure; all you need to do is wrap
it up in a CL program and off you go...  As an experiment, let's see if we
can't get some collaboration going on this: see if we can't build a freeware
utility we can give the AS/400 world! 

>I would like suggestions on comparing the outputs 
>of 2 dspfd commands to printer performed on the 
>exact same file before then after a maintenance 
>operation.  Here's how I do it now:
>
>1.     dspfd file_a (before) to print queue.
>2.     dspfd file_a (after) to print queue.
>3.     cpysplf the 2 printouts to 2 different PF members.
>4.     cpyf the 2 PF members to 2 different source PF members.
>5.     then use STRPDM to do the 54 (compare).

You can roll all of this in a CL program.  Here's a start.  Look at the
defaults for CPYSPLF - they default to the current job.  By specifying
SPLNBR(*LAST) you can be assured that you are looking at the DSPFD you last
run, not an earlier one left lying about.  You'll need to add some variable
declarations and some MONMSGs to deal with errors on the CRTPF/ADDPFM and
CPYSPLF.  Post your program and we'll see if we can use the group to enhance
it!

CRTPF FILE(QTEMP/FD)
      RCDLEN(132)   
      MBR(*NONE)    
      MAXMBRS(2)    
      SIZE(*NOMAX)  
addpfm qtemp/fd old text('Original file description')
addpfm qtemp/fd new text('Current file description')

OVRPRTF *PRTF HOLD(*YES)

DSPFD &OLD_FILE OUTPUT(*PRINT)
CPYSPLF FILE(QPDSPFD) TOFILE(QTEMP/FD) TOMBR(OLD) SPLNBR(*LAST)
DLTSPLF FILE(QPDSPFD)

DSPFD &NEW_FILE OUTPUT(*PRINT)
CPYSPLF FILE(QPDSPFD) TOFILE(QTEMP/FD) TOMBR(NEW) SPLNBR(*LAST)
DLTSPLF FILE(QPDSPFD)

CMPPFM NEWFILE(QTEMP/FD) NEWMBR(NEW) OLDMBR(OLD) 

DLTF QTEMP/FD

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
mailto:Buck.Calabro@aptissoftware.com

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