Comments on: verify data file http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/verify-data-file/ Mon, 20 May 2013 18:21:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/verify-data-file/#comment-70744 tomliotta Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:49:01 +0000 #comment-70744 There is no point in comparing a PF with a spooled file. The only reasonable way to compare a spooled file with anything is to use the spooled file APIs to resolve the spooled file into a user space and process the space. When you process the space, you’ll be doing the work that the CPYFRMSPLF command did to get the spooled file into the PF in the first place. If your programming doesn’t process in the same way as the command, you won’t get a match.

And if you can work out enough detail to get a match, there’s no point in using CPYFRMSPLF in the first place. You could use your own programming instead. And if you did that, exactly what would you be comparing?

Tom

]]> By: melissag http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/verify-data-file/#comment-38184 melissag Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:40:00 +0000 #comment-38184 Hi!
MichaelKinNH, I tried to implement what you’ve told me, and it didn’t work. What I’m trying to do is to compare the PF against the spool file it was created from. I’m doing this ’cause I want to make sure everything’s OK (the information in both files, the PF and the spool file, is the same). I don’t know if there’s a way to do this. If so, please let me know. Thanx to all.
Meli

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