Howard, A Version control system sounds a good way to go but I would have to make it automated. These files are on 17 remote systems and it wouldn't be a major event to do this. I get these calls usually four separate times a year (when they run these reports). Usually they made a backup copy of the file and I can do a diff to zero in on the problem but some don't do as their told so you start looking for the needle in the haystack.
So I will put the Version control system as one option. But would like to find the profiler which would help for new reports or reports that worked just fine and not changed and all of a sudden print whacky. That happens when the conditions are just right (but in the wrong way). Thanks for the pointer. John J. Boris Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Chairman Professional IT Community Conference (PICC'12) www.picconf.org >>> Howard Bampton <[email protected]> 5/3/2012 11:50 AM >>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM, John BORIS <[email protected]> wrote: > The documents were created years ago and each year they have just been > edited. My issues normally are with someone deleting a .\} or a \{\ or > add an errant one of these. Things work fine until the perfect storm and > bingo pages print on top of each other. Wouldn't just putting the files under some form of version control make fixing this much easier? Then you only have to look at what changed using the tool's built in version difference command to narrow down the problem. That would seem to be much less painful. Note that you don't have to tie this in directly to the work flow- a cronjob that copies the files to a secondary location periodically and does automated checkins will suffice. I used to do this with my NIS maps once a day (using the YYYYMMDD value as the version) and it allowed me to track down when defects occurred. Pretty much any versioning tool should work for this- RCS, CVS, git, SCCS, SVN, commercial stuff. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
