File-AID Compare Preferences

File-AID Compare preferences allow you to control settings and defaults for Compare requests. To change your preferences, click Window>Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears.

Expand Compuware and select File-AID Compare. The Preferences for File-AID Compare are presented in two main sections: General settings and Record matching defaults.
In addition to the Compuware>File-AID Compare preferences, general appearance preferences for Eclipse color and fonts can be used to control the color highlighting of differences used in the Compare details display.

When you change your preferences settings, the updated preferences will be remembered the next time you start File-AID Compare. To restore the default settings, click Restore Defaults. Then click Apply or OK to accept your changes.

Specify preferences for File-AID Compare

1. Enter the maximum number of differences to include in Compare results in the Limit for the number of differences to include in comparison details field. This limit will be used to pre-fill the corresponding field on the Limits tab of new Compare requests. The default is 1000.
2. Enter the number of differences per page in the Number of differences to display per page field. Compare results are grouped into pages, and this value allows you to tailor those pages to the desired size. The default is 100.
3. If desired, select the checkbox for When a compare request includes a KSDS VSAM file, always match using key fields. If the checkbox is selected, the corresponding choice will be pre-selected on the Record Matching tab of new Compare requests that specify a KSDS file, overriding any default matching method selected in the next step. The default is for the checkbox to be selected.

4. Select a default matching method. The available choices are:

   • Match records by using a sort field or key field.
   • Attempt to find a record match by reading ahead in the file that is likely in order
   • Attempt to find a record match by reading ahead/behind in the file that is likely not in order
   • Match records by using the record number as the key (1 to 1, 2 to 2, etc.)

   The corresponding choice will be pre-selected on the Record Matching tab of new Compare requests.

5. Enter a number in the Default number of records to read ahead or behind in an attempt to find matches field. This value will be used to pre-fill the corresponding fields on the Record Matching tab of new Compare requests. The default is 100.
6. To change the color used to highlight differences in Compare results, click the Colors and Fonts link. On the Colors and Fonts preference dialog, expand File-AID Compare and select Compare differences highlight colors. Click Edit, choose the desired highlighting color from the Color dialog box, and click OK.