RE: Compare Source

I have used the sourcecompare program that is available on the iseries, but
I have better results (for my environment) using 3rd party tools, as
ExamDiff from prestosoft, and beyond compare, by scooter software, and
Araxis Merge, for beautiful 3 way compares.

You can download you source files to a pc, and then compare, I wrote a Java
GUI program, to browse source files across different iseries, to retrieve
the source, to my PC for comparing...

This allows me to grab source from a previous version of our vendors
software, compare it to our custom version, and then do a 3-way compare to
the new version of our vendors software.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of RPower@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:16 AM
> To:   RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject:      Compare Source
> 
> Posted this yesterday but it doesn't look like it went thru.
> 
> Well,
> I've just come across an interesting anomaly I think.  Doing a compare 
> source on a new and old source that had two blocks of code inserted. 
> Anyway, after I do the compare source I get my new code matched to certain
> 
> 
> lines and the output looks really weird.  Here's what I'm talking about
> 
>  
> ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----
> +----8----+----9----+---10
>  
>  
>                               MAT=  389 
> I -      * Warning Message if rounded hours are 0 and months are > 0 
>         INS=    5 0000390
> I -     c                   if        (hours(x) = 0) and (months(x) <> 0) 
>                                       0000391
> I -     c                   except    warning3             0000392
> I -     c                   eval      warnings_ctr = warnings_ctr + 1 
>                         0000393
> I -     c                   endif  0000394
>                               MAT=   48 
> >>I -     c                   eval      warnings_ctr = warnings_ctr + 1 
>                          INS=    5 0000443
> >>I -     c                   endif    0000444
> I -      * Warning Message if rounded hours are 0 and months are > 0 
>                   0000445
> I -     c                   if        (hours(x) = 0) and (months(x) <> 0) 
>                                       0000446
> I -     c                   except    warning3             0000447
>                               MAT=  316 
> 
> The weird part is that the statements that are bolded are not in correct 
> sequence.  It should read:
>  
> ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----
> +----8----+----9----+---10
>  
>  
>                               MAT=   48 
> 
> I -      * Warning Message if rounded hours are 0 and months are > 0 
>                   0000445
> I -     c                   if        (hours(x) = 0) and (months(x) <> 0) 
>                                       0000446
> I -     c                   except    warning3             0000447
> I -     c                   eval      warnings_ctr = warnings_ctr + 1 
>               INS=    5 0000443
> I -     c                   endif  000044
> 
> Now those two lines of code seem to be matching up with another set of if 
> statements.  Any ideas on how the compare source works and why this is 
> happening?
> 
> 
> Ron Power
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