RE: testing a batch RPG pgm which uses the TIME opcode

How about copying your files into a temporary file without the time fields
and doing the compare on those files... Of course if you want to compare the
time stamp fields your kinda out of luck...  just a thought, never done it
myself..
tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stone, Joel [SMTP:StoneJ@GourmetAward.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 11:50 AM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: testing a batch RPG pgm which uses the TIME opcode
> 
> Great idea, and I normally do this in my pgms.  But I am testing other
> pgms, some of which I may not have access to source, others I cannot
> modify.
> 
> Is it impossible to modify the TIME result for a specific job? 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Buck Calabro [ <mailto:buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>] 
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 12:25 PM 
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com 
> Subject: RE: testing a batch RPG pgm which uses the TIME opcode 
> 
> 
> Joel Stone wrote: 
> 
> >I am trying to test a new version 
> >of an RPG4 pgm.  I run the old 
> >and new pgm versions, then use 
> >CMPPFM to compare the output 
> >files field by field. 
> > 
> >3) The RPG pgm uses the TIME 
> >opcode to time-stamp fields in the 
> >records.  Since the old version and 
> >new version run a few seconds apart, 
> >none of the output records ever match.  
> 
> Don't use TIME.  Build your own function, say, createTimeStamp.  Within
> it, 
> hard code a fixed time stamp for the duration of your testing.  When you
> go 
> live, use the TIME op code again.  That way you won't have to chase all
> over 
> creation replacing TIME with hardcoding and vice versa. 
> 
> The CMPPFM problems are unpleasant.  I typically use 3 SQL statements: 
> 
> join where records are in old and new 
> records in old but not new 
> records in new but not old 
> 
> Buck Calabro 
> Aptis; Albany, NY 
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>  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle 
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