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Thanks to all!
Buck, This is an excellent idea. I will see what I can come up
with. The only reason I have not done it as yet is because I thought there
may have been an obscure existing AS400 method to produce the desired
results. Evidentally not because you guys would've known.
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:41
AM
Subject: RE: Comparing 2 printouts
(before and after) ?
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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