On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 08:16:50 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
>I've used the compare utility extensively, also many years ago the
>extended compare utility was used, I used to create IEBUPDTE control
>cards, been so long I forget what parms to use,
>
UPDCMS8, UPDMVS8:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=reference-process-options>
I learned long ago, to my utter dismay, that UPDMVS8 requires that both OLD
and NEW data sets have valid sequence numbers. UPDCMS8 requires only
that OLD have valid sequence numbers. I wrote a Rexx filter to convert UPDCMS8
DELTA to IEBUPDTE commands.
Are the ASCII and CPnnnnn useful?
The doc appears to contradict itself. It says in the summary:
ASCII Convert input file data from EBCDIC to ASCII
But in the detail:
ASCII
Process ASCII input files. For LINE or WORD compare and for Search
the input data is translated from ASCII to EBCDIC.
> ... but for UNIX to UNIX,
>since the ServerPac migration guide provided the doc on how to use the
>diff command I've incorporated this into my install / upgrade doc.
>
>also, the output from the example is written to a txt file, so I can
>edit it via the Ishell or ISPF EDIT
>
diff plus patch are eminently usable.
-- gil
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