Re: Recommendations on an RPG source compare utility?

mark

There are a couple different compare tools in RDi - one being the Eclipse tool

You don't need iProjects to do the Eclipse compare, so far as I know. If you are in RSE, select the 2 source members you want to compare, then right-click on one of them and click on the "Compare.With" item, then click on "Each Other".

That ends up with a side-by-side compare, and I think it takes into account the source dates - there might be a setting in the upper-left corner you can change to affect that.

The compare I prefer in RDi is one you can use with an already-open member - you go to the "Edit" menu, then click on the "Compare to file" option, where you get to select which member to compare to.

The other way to get to this is the "delta" triangle on the toolbar, usually to the right of the buttons there.

This compare gives you a display with old and new in the same editor window, colored red and yellow, resp. You can change the colors in Preferences under LPEX Editor-->Appearance, but these colors are what were used in Code/400.

HTH
Vern

On 3/9/2016 12:50 PM, Mark Bonges wrote:

Thanks for your responses!

I am currently researching CMS tools to learn what is out there. To me, it
is not a question of "if" but instead "when" we move to a CMS tool. A server
upgrade is currently our holdup. So if anyone is happy with their file
compare using the CMS tool I'd be happy to hear it.

Buck made me aware of an area in Rational called i Projects, which
facilitates copying RPG source to your computer so other eclipse compare
tools can be used on them. It's a little bit of a pain to have to do that
but very doable using I Projects where it was much harder before I was aware
that existed.

Of course the files I'm trying to compare in this moment had their source
date values change so the tool things everything changed as a result. :/ I
believe iSphere can be configured to ignore the date area. I think I'm going
to proceed with that for now.