Compare Options

When you select the Options button, three tabs are displayed — Languages, Compare Options and Report Filter. These options are similar to the compare options available in Application Designer for Managed Objects.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Languages page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Field or Control	Description
Include Language-Neutral Data	By default this check box is selected. Language neutral data is data that is not translated. In an IDE project copy this is referred to as COMMON.
Languages	By default all installed languages are selected. Use the links to select or deselect all languages. Select each language you want to compare.

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This page applies to all data sets.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Compare Options page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Note:

The compare options Compare By and Target Orientation only apply to Tracked Data Sets .See Tracked ADS Definitions.

Field or Control	Description
Compare By	Select Release to compare by the highest release in the target. Use the search icon to select other releases in the target. The Compare process labels definitions as Changed, *Changed (custom changed), or %Changed if they have been changed since the date and time stamp for that release level. This is the default. Select Date to have the Compare process label definitions as Changed, *Changed or %Changed if they have been changed since the date that you specify. See Understanding Status
Target Orientation	Determines how the Upgrade check boxes are set for comparing objects based on the user that last modified the object. To understand the impact of the target orientation, refer to Understanding Upgrade Action.
Merge Target Configurations	If the data set includes mergeable group, this check box is selected by default. If the data set does not contain mergeable groups, this box is not selected and a message is displayed that the project does not contain any mergeable data sets.
Validate Project	Select this check box if you want to validate the project when it is compared. By default the check box is selected. See Validating From File
Ignore Shape Differences	This functionality is now disabled. If there is a shape change in Application owned datasets between source and target environments, then the copy, compare, and validate processes fail. To correct the shape changes, review and use the logs <filename.stdout> available at Process Monitor, and then Details, and then View Log/Trace.

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The compare options Compare By and Target Orientation only apply to Tracked Data Sets .See Tracked ADS Definitions. For all other data sets, the page is display only.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Report Filter page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Before performing a comparison, you can select the definition status combinations with which you generate reports by using report filter options.

The default settings for report filtering show conflicting configured definitions only.

• To reset your selections to the default setting, click the Default button.

• To select all definition status combinations, click the Select All button.

• If you don't want to generate any reports, click the Deselect All button to clear all of the check boxes