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Thank you, Stefan! I will investigate md5.

RHEL 9.3 -- OE 11.7.18 I have just discovered that Progress documentation mentions "SIGNATURE-VALUE attribute". It says "Use this attribute to determine if a procedure changed between different versions of your application." Can someone explain exactly what this means, please? I understand...

I tried comparing using just the r-code, but that failed too. I found that if I compile a plain-text program (.p) and save the result r-code -- then do exactly the same thing again a few minutes later -- changing nothing at all, the two r-code files differ. It appears that the compile process...

I appreciate that, Rob, but close to 50% of all of the source files (2,200 vs 4,790) are in that group. I think that most of those files actually do match-up, but I can't explain how they get different checksums.

Yes, Rob, diff easily tells you if two binary files are the same or not. The problem, however, is that there are 3,500 individual source files and various copies are in 18 different locations on a Windows server (GIT) -- and two Linux servers and altogether there are 29,000 separate files. The...

Thank you Stefan -- I will contact them

Another xcode query. (OE 11.7.18 / RHEL 7.4 ) We have a financials system with about 20 VMs set-up for developers. When code is ready it is promoted to the SIT environment (System Integration Testing), compiled and tested. After testing the new/changed code is promoted to UAT, compiled and...

Thank you very much ... the Progress code contains no GUI stuff; all GUI is handled through APIs.

Linux 7.4 -- OE 11.7.18 The system I work on has Linux servers with Progress DBs and (classic) AppServers on Windows that connect to the Linux servers. The exact-same program code set resides on both Linux and Windows, so when compiles occur on Linus the new compiled code-set is copied to the...

11.7.17 on Linux. I have a problem that is a bit similar -- a script to compile a set of programs into multiple environments. There are over 30 environments -- each being a copy of production used by different development teams. Everything works fine except for one thing -- at the completion...

Tom -- I am embarrassed that I didn't think of dumping/loading the tables that control the menu system! That sounds like the best solution. :) By the way ... what is the "difference tool"?

Thank you Rob, I didn't want to over-complicate the situation I was describing... we do have many environments, including Staging. I personally don't delve into the application code very much but from what I see of how the menu systems works I think it would be a big stretch for our developers...

Sorry for not explaining things, clearly, Rob. The application we use is large and complex (it's a banking system). Major changes (which happen rather often) almost always involve schema changes -- and we can handle that without a problem. The "problem" is that the CHUI part of the system has...

Thank you, Tom. Yes, I appreciate that a 4GL-code solution is possible, but that would require quite a lot of R&D to discover exactly what is required. I was hoping that there might be a way to capture details of what happens when all the menu changes are made to the TEST system such that they...

Linux RHEL -- OE 11.7.17 Hi, I have a set-up that is pretty common -- TEST, UAT and PROD servers. We have an application that has both a character UI and via AppServers also a GUI UI. When a change is implemented, it often involves a rather large number of menu changes in the character...

11.7.17 on Red Hat Linux At present our Production system has xcoded source on it. I'm planning changing to have no source at all on Prod, but it will take a few months to get that done. In the meantime I'm learning about xcode. I have encountered it many times before but this is the first...

OE 11.7.4 on Linux (Nutanix) Our prod DB is on a Linux server. It has four Windows hosts that connect to it that each support a classic AppServer (set to have 5 agents) -- with load-balancers. Our UAT and TEST environments are set-up similarly. We plan to move from the existing "classic"...

OE 11.7.4 on Linux Our prod DB is on a Linux server. It has four Windows hosts that connect to it that each support a classic AppServer (set to have 5 agents) -- with load-balancers. Our UAT and TEST e (This post got truncated! I'll have to re-type it!

Sorry -- I've withdrawn this. I have worked-out what I needed. Ron.

Thank you! It is a surprise to me, that's for sure. But I can work around it. Ron.