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Unless I'm mistaken, you can do this with a join logical file... Rename the old customer file, build a join logical over it and the new customer file so that it pulls the address from one, and the remainder of the data from the other... On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Stone, Joel wrote: > I have 1000+ programs reading a customer master file (the old cust file). > Can I add a trigger program which performs the following: > > Whenever a program which reads a record from the old customer master file: > > Read a different new customer file, get the customer's address from the new > file, and place the new address field into the address field in the old > customer record format. > > Using this method, I could add a new file and not have to change any of the > many programs using the old customer master file. > > If not a trigger program, is there any other method to accomplish this on > the Iseries? > > I am aware of OVRDBF, but that will not allow me to grab select fields from > another file. > > Also I am familiar with OPNQRYF, but that would require CL changes and would > limit the ease of implementation. Also, OPNQRYF would not support any logic > built into the record retrieval. > > If I could use a trigger program, in theory, I could make a database change > which would require no changes to programs using the customer file. >
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