topic Re: Comparing Programs in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:40:06 GMT

I have been asked to write a program that compares various BW Objects across systems. For most of these I can find a generated program. Has anyone ever tried to compare these before?

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:41:48 GMT

hi,

if you want to compare the two programs means goto Se39 tranasction

cheers,

sasi

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:45:40 GMT

HY,

U CAN GO TO UTILITIES->MORE UTILITIES-> SPLITSCREEN EDITOR.

REGARDS,

KARTIKEY.

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:49:29 GMT

Hi,

if you want you write your own program:

there is a FM <b>RFC_READ_REPORT</b> to read the source of a report from a remote system.

Good luck...

Stefan

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:37:40 GMT

Thank you Stefan, I can see now that I can get the source code from another system. But do I really have to loop thru' line by line to compare the code ?

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:44:46 GMT

Hi,

You could have the old and new programs in internal tables (by using the RFC), and then compare as follows:

If itab1[] = itab2[].

<code>

Endif.

You will still have to loop through line by line for the changed programs, but with the above statement you will at least be able to eliminate the ones that have not changed.

Hope this helps.

Sudha

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:52:32 GMT

Hi Jill,

thanks for the points.

The easiest way is to compare if the source is equal:

if it_sourcetab1[] <> it_sourcetab2[].
...  
endif.

or do want do have a detailed report of the difference?

Regards,

Stfan

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:56:30 GMT

Unfortunately I have to report on every difference !

Re: Comparing Programs

Former Member — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:16:09 GMT

Hi Jill,

I took a look in your system and found the FM

<b>RS_VERS_COMPARE_TAB</b>

for this.

Regards,

Stefan