On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, at 13:19, Robert Prins wrote: > On 2020-02-04 10:56, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, at 11:44, Robert Prins wrote: > > > >> It also updates the change-logs in each of the affected execs, and as > >> we keep a few generations of older versions around, it's irritating > >> that compares show that the change-log has been updated, but > >> that there are no other changes. > > > > So "it also updates the change-logs in each of the affected execs" > > statement is incorrect. They weren't 'affected execs'. > > > > Why on earth are you updating change-logs with (in effect) "no change" > > statements? > > > > Why don't you stop inserting pointless change-log entries ... then you > > won't have the 'compare' problem? > > The input file for the affected execs does change, but the changes may not > affect all of the REXX execs/edit macros that are used to process its > contents. > The "master" exec/edit macro (it's both) just extracts all the relevant data, > and passes it on to the various per-exec/edit macro subroutines. It has no > clue > whether the data to be processed by any of these other exec/edit macros has > changed.
That's confusing. Earlier you implied it was the execs (ie the logic, I assumed) that was changing. Now you say it's the data. Have you got both logic and data in the same file(s)? Why don't you leave the execs alone and make them read their data from external files, and just change those? > The, until yesterday, code would willy-nilly copy the new data, whether > changed > or not, into the member, and update the change-log. What I wanted to do was > to > just insert the data, do a "COMPARE *", and then either do a "cancel", if > there > were no changes... I suppose I'd have chosen to read the existing definitons first and only call an edit macro to update them if they needed to change. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
