Thanks John. I will try that tomorrow, got handed an urgent priority investigation to work on first.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SuperC utility loses its place when comparing text files with many differences OK, further experimentation worked for me. cd /tmp #go to temp directory mkdir diff #new directory cd diff #change to it mkfifo file1 #input file #1 mkfifo file2 #input file #2 mkfifo output #diff output cp "//'zos.input.file1'" file1 & cp "//'zos.input.file2'" file2 & diff file1 file2 >output & tsocmd "OGET '/tmp/diff/output' VB255.TXT TEXT" cd /tmp rm -rf diff #get rid of junk I actually tried this. I couldn't generalize it because the OGET command requires a fully resolved path. No use of ~/diff to say relative to ${HOME}. I preallocated userid.VB255.TXT to VB/255. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Thomas Conley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/8/2013 12:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 12:00:49 -0500, Thomas Conley wrote: >>> >>> >>> I've seen this behavior myself, even on smaller files. It stops >>> recognizing that lines are the same and just has huge blocks as inserts >>> and deletes, even though the lines are the same. SUPERC support was >>> unimpressed, I got the WAD. >>> >> I'm curious: How does this compare with the behavior of "diff", both >> on z/OS and on other UNICES. I've not had the bad experience. >> >> How small is "smaller"? >> > > Gil, > > Smaller is often a 20-50 line PARMLIB or JCL member. > > Regards, > Tom Conley -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
