SUPERC is only showing me diffrences upto 133 bytes

mainframe_techie · New User Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

Hi,

I am running SUPERC utility ( compare utility ) in batch mode.
My file size is 1000 bytes.
Superc's comparision is only showing me diffrences upto 133 bytes.
I also tried incresing the size of output to 1000 bytes, but still superc is showing the diffrences upto 133.

Can anybody please advise how can I see the comparision upto 1000 bytes ??

thanks,

ofer71 · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:08 am

You can't with SUPERC.

When I was in your situation, I ran SUPERC with one of the UPDATE options, in order to get the exact mismatch position. Then, I read SUPERC's output from REXX and display the actual records.

O.

murmohk1 · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:38 am

mainframe_techie,

Why dont you use FileAid's COMPARE option?

ksk · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:04 pm

I prefer to do it from option 3.13. In 3.13, go to options and select EDIT STATEMENTS. write your matching condition and do compare.

KSK

ofer71 · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:05 pm

ksk -

I believe the the OP knows about that option. However, no matter how you invoke SUPERC (menu 3.13, batch job, programmatically) - the maximun length of the result is 205 (default is 133).

O.

ksk · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:12 pm

Ofer,

My solution works if we know which fields are to be checked. and that also should be less than 133 characters.

E.g. If checking field is from position 200 to 255, we can provide this and see. If checking field is more than 133 characters, this solution won't work.

KSK

murmohk1 · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:26 pm

KSK,

mainframe_techie · New User Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

Hi,

I know the EDIT statements option but the problem is using that max is 205 bytes.

We dont have File Aid in out Shop, hence that option is ruled out.

The position in the files can differ which I need to compare.

Please advise in option 3.13.

Thanks,

murmohk1 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:02 pm

mainframe_techie · New User Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 23 Location: India

We use another tool called INSYNC. Its comparision is not that useful.

Thanks,

Joel.B · New User Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 5 Location: India

Hi,

I want to compare 2 files.My requirement is i vl give record lenght of file dynamically.Please provide me if any body having code in REXX or COBOL.
Tired with ISRSUPC-Utility but not able to compare..Please guide me..

thanks in advance.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:04 pm

Hi,

yogi.47eie · New User Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 45 Location: india

Hi
can't we use TSO COMP or COMP option in command lime to compare two files irrespective of the total length..
if you want to compare two files.
open file 1 in view mode.
type TSO COMP 'File 2' or COMP 'File 2 ' in command line.

i have tried this one number of times...
cheers
yogi

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:53 pm

COMP is neither a TSO nor an ISPF command.

O.

Aaru · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:20 pm

O,

I have also used TSO COMP to compare datasets. It is actually a TSO command.

ofer71 · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:46 pm

Can you please show it to me in the TSO/E Command Reference?

O.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:46 pm

I am on ISPF 5.8, and just today learned about COMP.
from the TSO HELP COMP;

Pedro · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:07 pm

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:01 am

Marso · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:43 pm

I tried "TSO COMP" and received the question:
IKJ56700A ENTER NAME OF DATASET TO BE COMPRESSED
so COMP stands for COMPress, not for COMPare...

Carol Mellinger · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:47 am

Did you ever get an answer to the below problem? I did not see one.

Carol

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:35 am

Hello Carol and welcome to the forum,

If memory serves (and as was posted earlier in the topic) 1000 bytes cannot be compared/displayed with SUPERC.

Are you with DoA, AHCCCS, ?

Carol Mellinger · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:16 am

Hi Dick

I figured this out. We cannot change the output but I can copy the
load module using iebcopy, then scan it with a program to get what I
need. Thanks for your reply.

I work for the Office of Administration for the State of Arizona. We have an old mainframe system called AFIS that does all of the states accounting.

I am trying to automate some auditing process that we do by viewing the load modules and looking for dates. It will give you the member that was changed within a specified date but the dates and time of the last compile are always in different locations. Surprisingly it works alot but misses modules (dah! unformatted dataset). I am amazed it works as well as it does. ( I was trying to fix it so it worked all the time)

Thanks again....

carol

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:26 am

Hi Carol,

You might also look at a program called AMBLIST.

Carol Mellinger · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:33 pm

Hi Dick

I got a
AMB121I INVALID CONTROL STATEMENT -- PROCESSING TERMINATES

Is the command LISTDIR instead of LISTIDR. What is this anyway?
A have never heard of it. Where do you work?

Thanks,
Carol