I am migrating from one ADCD system to a newer version. I wanted to see the differences in the supplied members.

In ISPF 3.13 (SUPERCE) you can compare dataset members.

• Enter the New DS Name and the Old DS Name
• If you leave the PDS Member List blank, you get prompted on the next page to select the members of interest. I specified *
• Compare type 1 (file) gives you a report on the members which are the same or not. See Output from file compare
• Compare type 2 (line) shows the contents which are different.
  • Listing type 2 (Delta) gives just the changed lines. See here
  • Listing type 3 (CHNG) shows the change in context. See here
  • Listing type 4 (Long) shows the all the members

Output from file compare

                                                                                     
                      MEMBER SUMMARY LISTING (FILE COMPARE) 
                                                                                     
DIFF SAME    MEMBERS-COMPARED  N-BYTES O-BYTES N-LINES O-LINES N-HASH-SUM O-HASH-SUM 
                                                                                     
      **     IEASYMCP              400     400       5       5  0EA58F29   0EA58F29 
      **     IEASYMZZ             2000    2000      25      25  2D0DCCA3   2D0DCCA3 
 **          IEASYSCP              800     720      10       9  6D0F7302   737B66E5 
      **     IEASYSC2              800     800      10      10  7B933738   7B933738 
      **     IEASYS00             3760    3760      47      47  61EAEE95   61EAEE95 
      **     IGDSMS00             1920    1920      24      24  A24BDDC8   A24BDDC8 
      **     IKJTSO00             9920    9920     124     124  46049FE2   46049FE2 

Output from Line compare, CHNG output(3)

This shows the changes in context.

• At the front of the line is I or D, to show what was added or deleted
• The TYPE MAT= is the count of matching lines, and the line numbers within the files.
• TYPE=RPL is the count of lines replace, and the line numbers within the files.

 NEW: USER.Z31A.PARMLIB(IRRPRMCP)     OLD: USER.Z25D.PARMLIB(IRRPRMCP) 
                                                                                                            
                      LISTING OUTPUT SECTION (LINE COMPARE) 
                                                                                                            
 ID       SOURCE LINES                                TYPE  LEN N-LN# O-LN# 
     ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----... 
     DATABASE_OPTIONS                                 MAT=    3 00001 00001 
       DATASETNAMETABLE                                         00002 00002 
          ENTRY                                                 00003 00003 
 I -          PRIMARYDSN(COLIN.RACFDB.NEW)            RPL=    1 00004 00004 
 D -          PRIMARYDSN(COLIN.RACFDB2) 
              BACKUPDSN(SYS1.RACFDS.BACKUP)           MAT=    1 00005 00005 

You also get the output from the Output from file compare

Output from Line compare, Delta output(2)

This just gives the inserted and deleted lines. It is a subset of the data above.

NEW: USER.Z31A.PARMLIB(IRRPRMCP)  OLD: USER.Z25D.PARMLIB(IRRPRMCP) 
                                                                                                            
                     LISTING OUTPUT SECTION (LINE COMPARE) 
                                                                                                            
ID       SOURCE LINES                              TYPE  LEN N-LN# O-LN# 
    ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+--... 
                                                   MAT=    3 
I -          PRIMARYDSN(COLIN.RACFDB.NEW)          RPL=    1 00004 00004 
D -          PRIMARYDSN(COLIN.RACFDB2) 

You also get the output from the Output from file compare.