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Comparing spool files

Former Member — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:47:41 GMT

Hello everybody,

I am trying to find a way to compare spool files. I would like to have a rusult like the version comparison of abap reports. I have tried the fm used, bu the result is unsatisfactory.

does anyone have an idea?

thanks in advance

tom

Re: Comparing spool files

andreas_mann3 — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:46:16 GMT

Hi Thomas,

try that:

1)fm RSPO_RETURN_ABAP_SPOOLJOB spool-no. 1

2)fm RSPO_RETURN_ABAP_SPOOLJOB spool-no. 2

compare received internal tables

regards Andreas

Re: Comparing spool files

Former Member — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:36:56 GMT

Hello,

First read the spool files and move to internal tables.

You can use the function module :

'RS_EDTR_SPLIT_SCREEN_EDIT' to compare internal

tables data. It will dsplay the data in split screen

editor.

Hope this will help you.

Thanks & Regards,

Siri.

Re: Comparing spool files

Former Member — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:37:02 GMT

Hi Andreas,

thank you for the reply.

I know how to read the SPOOL data (I'm using RSPO_RETURN_SPOOLJOB). The problem is to compare the data like the version management does. Any Idea?

regards

tom

Re: Comparing spool files

Former Member — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:34:34 GMT

Hi Siri,

brilliant tip. Does it almost perfect. Problem is still the fact that all these tools are designed to compare ABAP sources and not spool-lists.

maybe I should give everybody more background.

the idea is to compare the result of a specific list between two systems in the process of an upgrade. we have a 4.7 system (6.20) and we are going to upgrade to 6.40. In order to test the results of customer specific and standard reports it would be nice to compare the spool list automatically.

I hope this makes it easier to put into context.

thanks for any further tips

tom