Is it possible to compare multiple job pairs in version 8?

tbtcust · Post by **tbtcust** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:18 am

Hi All.

Is it possible to compare multiple job pairs at once in version 8?

I have a set of jobs in development and that same set of jobs are in production. I want to identify all jobs in production that have been changed in development and what those changes are.

I'm want to avoid comparing one pair at a time. Perhaps there is some batch process that does this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:19 am

I don't think so. The comparison tool is very much tied in to the GUI, and is designed for visual inspection.

tbtcust · Post by **tbtcust** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:38 am

Thanks Ray. I have a third party tool that can do the compare work in a batch mode.

Is it possible to export jobs individually in one fell swoop? I want to avoid doing them one at a time.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:55 am

There are other current threads on exactly this topic. You have to script it; it can not be done "out of the box" from the command line. If you use the GUI you can, however, export from a Quick Search or Advanced Find result.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:08 am

I'm curious, what is the "third party tool" of which you speak?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:10 pm

Stay tuned for version 8.1 and the Information Server Manager, where there is the ability to do exactly that comparison (well, you can already do a cross-project comparison, but the new yool allows both pre- and post-deployment comparison, as well as rollback).