TM1 Data Directory Compare Tool

[Kyro]

Morning All,

I've just thought I'd put out one of the tools I've made over the last while.
This tool takes the directories of both production and development servers and tells which files are missing from which directory.

Click here to download

I have also put it on my TM1 Tutorials Site.

Sorry, I posted here as I dont have access to post in the "Useful code, tips and tricks" forum.

[Martin Ryan]

Is this still publicly available somewhere Ben? This link doesn't work anymore.

Martin

[bihints.com]

windows: http://winmerge.org/
linux: diff -qr dirA dirB

[jim wood]

I'm guessing that's a different more geenric open source tool that does the same thing??

[bihints.com]

winmerge also displays differences between the files side by side, highlighting the chunks of code that differ.

or simpler, no installs required:
DOS: xcopy /L can list what files may need to be copied.
bash: rsync -anuve

[Wim Gielis]

Hello

Updated code of Ben could be found here:

http://users.skynet.be/fa436118/wim/tm1 ... tories.htm

(direct link to a page on my website).

Needless to say, there are other and possibly better/easier methods, as suggested above.

[Martin Ryan]

Wow, that WinMerge is great! Thanks for the tip.

[Harvey]

I have been using WinMerge for a few years now and can highly recommend it. It saves many hours of hair-pulling in a dev/staging/prod environment.

However, if you want to compare changes in dimensions, cubes, attributes, processes, etc, you're out of luck as these are stored in binary format on disk and WinMerge can only show (readable) differences in text files.

I'm working on a tool that does an even better job (ie, it doesn't just show file differences, it understands TM1 objects and how to compare them) and will announce on the forums when I have got it to beta stage.