Comparing Programs

[Former Member]

Hi

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?

[Former Member]

hi,

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

cheers,

sasi

[Former Member]

HY,

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

REGARDS,

KARTIKEY.

[Former Member]

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

[Former Member]

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 ?

[Former Member]

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

[Former Member]

Unfortunately I have to report on every difference !

[Former Member]

Hi Jill,

I took a look in your system and found the FM

<b>RS_VERS_COMPARE_TAB</b>

for this.

Regards,

Stefan

[Former Member]

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