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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 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
Rocket Software
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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
Rocket Software
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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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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.

------------------------------
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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