Re: Source Compare that can ignore col 1 - 5

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

Use (green-screen) CMPPFM, option(*RPGSRCCOL ). It checks only columns from
6 to 74.

HTH,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jeff Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is anyone aware of a source compare utility that can ignore columns 1 - 5
> of the
> record and compare the rest?
>
> I have a source member that was corrupted when a problem occured with RDI
> and it
> put the change flag that I had specified in the preferences in every
> record.
>
> I have a prior version of the program, but the existing source compare
> utilities
> will flag every record as different.
>
> I need to be able to determine which records were actually affected by the
> change.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Young
> Sr. Programmer Analyst
> IBM -e(logo) server Certified Systems Exper - iSeries Technical Solutions
> V5R2
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