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

Joel, 

1) Don't know
2) Don't know
3) NO

Just write your own compare program, it's not so difficult, you can just
read one record from each file, you may ignore the timestamp values and
compare the rest, and unmatchng records you can write to file or spool ...
it's really easy ...

-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Joel [mailto:StoneJ@GourmetAward.com]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 4:57 PM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: testing a batch RPG pgm which uses the TIME opcode


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.

1)      Is there a way to have the unmatched records output from CMPPFM with
field name columns, and showing packed data in a readable format?

2)      Is it possible to show the unmatched records as hex, so I can see
time stamps and packed field values?  Currently the CMPPFM report shows only
printable characters.

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.  Is there a way to force the TIME
opcode to return a constant value in a job so the timestamp fields will
match when running CMPPFM??


Thanks!
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