You use the migration help function on a Program, Screen or Server to see whether the Pacbase generation is different from the local generation.
Indicate a migration help batch command line from a command prompt or a command file. With this mode, you can compare many files, with all the options available for the migration help. Three execution reports are generated.
This mode must be reserved for few comparisons. Only a limited number of options are available. No execution report is generated.
Right-click an instance in the Design Explorer view and select Migration help. A two-page wizard opens up:
It generates the local COBOL file, using the skeleton language retrieved from the Pacbase extraction and import.
Then it compares the content of the control file with the content of the locally generated file and sets warnings wherever it finds differences.
To view these warnings, you must open the generated file with the PDP COBOL editor. The warnings are displayed directly on the COBOL lines and in the Problems view. They remain as long as you do not fix them (quick fixes are available).
An information message is displayed when you open the COBOL code of an instance which still contains warnings.
If you start the migration help in a batch mode, three execution reports are generated in the folder specified in the --reportFolder parameter of the command line. These reports list the differences detected between the Pacbase generation and the local generation.