Is file comparison possible?

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tomltran7@gmail.com
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Is file comparison possible?

Post by tomltran7@gmail.com »

I have transferred a file to a dataset. I'd like to compare the text files from my local system that contains ASCII characters to the mvs dataset generated and display all the differences by byte number and octal byte format in EBCDIC. Is this possible through CO:Z?

#Copies my file to an MVS dataset
todsn -o 'recfm=fb,lrecl=80' //MVS1.DATASET1 < myfile

#Opens the dataset version generated
cozclient cat "//'MVS1.DATASET1.G0002V00'"

#My attempt to compare source file to destination file
Cozclient cmp -l filecodeset=ISO8859-1,pgmcodeset=IBM-1047 "dir1/myfile" "//'MVS1.DATASET1.G0002V00'"


Thanks,
TT
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Re: Is file comparison possible?

Post by dovetail »

This works from my Linux desktop:

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$ cozcontrol start -ssh kirk@myzos.com
$ cmp <(fromdsn //tcpip.etc.services) /etc/services

fromdsn(TCPIP.ETC.SERVICES)[N]: 138 records/11040 bytes read; 4765 bytes written in 0 milliseconds.
/dev/fd/63 /etc/services differ: byte 2, line 1
fromdsn-client(5264)[E]: handleCmdIO: (nonblocking) write error on stdout: Broken pipe
The error from fromdsn-client is because cmp closes the input pipe file from fromdsn without reading it all when it finds a difference.
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