RE: Compare for large RPGLE source members.

["Morgan, Paul" <Paul.Morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's say you have 80 and 120 char to a source text line so the record length is 92 and 132 which gives Max records to compare of 162,875 and 117,213.

Paul

Principal Programmer Analyst
IS Supply Chain/Replenishment

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 6:46 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Compare for large RPGLE source members.


  It hasn't choked on a 20,000-line member - and that's RPGLE, which is 
longer that most other source types.

On 10/4/2010 11:27 AM, Morgan, Paul wrote:
> CMPPFM will choke but the max depends on dividing 16meg by the record length with some fudging:
>
> Max = ( 16777216 / ( record length + 11 ) ) - 100
>
> Paul
>
> Principal Programmer Analyst
> IS Supply Chain/Replenishment
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:10 PM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Subject: RE:Compare for large RPGLE source members.
>
> There's always the CMPPFM command.  That's part of the Programmer Development Tools library (QPDA) and don't know if it would choke on something this big or not as I don't have anything closely equivalent for testing.
>
> Jerry C. Adams
> IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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