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diffutils for z/OS Files

  • September 28, 2021
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Hi Team,

Is there any documentation explaining the usage of "Diffutils". I see the installation bin folder is having 'cmp', 'diff', 'diff3' and 'sdiff' binaries.
Can we compare Z/OS files directly using Diffutils? Please help us to understand.

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Sai Praneeth
Lead Consultant
Wipro Technologies
Chennai India
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    Sergey Rezepin
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    • September 28, 2021
    Hi Team,

    Is there any documentation explaining the usage of "Diffutils". I see the installation bin folder is having 'cmp', 'diff', 'diff3' and 'sdiff' binaries.
    Can we compare Z/OS files directly using Diffutils? Please help us to understand.

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    Sai Praneeth
    Lead Consultant
    Wipro Technologies
    Chennai India
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    Hi Sai, 

    These tools can be used for comparing USS files (the same way as on a Linux system), but they are not able to compare MVS datasets.

    Thanks,
    Sergey



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    Sergey Rezepin
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    • Sai Praneeth
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    • September 28, 2021

    Hi Sai, 

    These tools can be used for comparing USS files (the same way as on a Linux system), but they are not able to compare MVS datasets.

    Thanks,
    Sergey



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    Sergey Rezepin
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    Got it. Thanks for the quick reply @Sergey Rezepin​

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    Sai Praneeth
    Lead Consultant
    Wipro Technologies
    Chennai India
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    Alexander Klochkov
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    Hi Team,

    Is there any documentation explaining the usage of "Diffutils". I see the installation bin folder is having 'cmp', 'diff', 'diff3' and 'sdiff' binaries.
    Can we compare Z/OS files directly using Diffutils? Please help us to understand.

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    Sai Praneeth
    Lead Consultant
    Wipro Technologies
    Chennai India
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    Hi Sai Praneeth,

    If you have bash installed, you can use the following command to diff datasets:
    diff <(cat "//'DATA.SET(MEM1)'") <(cat "//'DATA.SET(MEM2)'")

    Thanks,
    Alexander


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