Comparing resources
You can compare two groups, lists, or definitions, by using the compare function. You can also compare resources that are shown in the history view.
- Hold down the Ctrl key and click the two resources that you want to compare. You can use the shift key if the resources are next to each other in the list.
- Right-click and select Compare with each other. The results are shown in a new view that opens when you click the menu option. The task that is running is shown in the view toolbar.
- The gray arrow
indicates that the resource is only included in the first list selected and is displayed in the view showing the compare results.
- The blue arrow
indicates that the resource is only included in the second list selected and is displayed in the view showing the compare results.
- The double-red arrow
indicates that the resource is in both lists but is not the same.
The results do not display the resources that match exactly.
If you select a group or definition name in the results displayed in view, the attributes are displayed in another section of the view.
The results of each comparison are accessible in a tab in the view until you close the tab.
You can run Compare with each other from results displayed in the History view.
You can run Checksum on the results in the results view. Click the down arrow to display the Checksum options available. For more information about Checksum, see Comparing a list panel of objects with a checksum column in CICS Configuration Manager product documentation.

Lists
You can compare two lists in the same configuration. The groups in the lists are compared and the results are displayed in a new view.

Groups
- Select two Configurations in the Configurations view.
- Right-click and select Show all groups from the menu, or, select Search > Search for groups. If you select to Search for Groups you can define your search in the Search dialog window. For more information, see Searching for a group.
- Select a group from each configuration in the Search results view. The groups for each
configuration are displayed with the configuration name.
- Right-click and select Compare with each other. The results are shown in
the new view. In the following screen capture the selected group has definitions that are in both
configurations, so both the configuration sections on the view are populated. If the group is only
in one configuration the attribute information is displayed only in that section.
Definitions
- Select two definitions that you want to compare.
- Right-click and select Compare with each other. The results are displayed in the new view that opens.
- If you select an attribute in the results view, the attribute and the value of that attribute are highlighted.
