Comparing spool files

[Former Member]

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

[andreas_mann3]

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

[Former Member]

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.

[Former Member]

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

[Former Member]

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