Re: General ideas on researching deleted records

Do we take it from this that the files are not journaled?  Because that would be the first place to look.

I would also find some way to check if _only_ these records are missing. i.e. perhaps this is symptomatic of an ongoing problem that was never big enough to register before.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 13, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Hoteltravelfundotcom <hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> HI This is a general and long shot question.
> 
> It seems we have lost 2 days of invoices from a particular file.
> 
> How to research what caused this?
> 
> Developers are the primary suspects of course or rather process of elim.
> while most
> devs would never do some of these I am trying to see what may have happened
> and how to locate any logs of these: by all means let me know if my
> thinking is completely
> wrong and how it should be looked for.
> 
> MY thinking is records get deleted by a dev if there is
> 
> 1.any program (rpg/cl ?)  that outputs to that file
> 2. A Cpyf to that file, overlaying blanks i guess.
> 3. command but a dltf would be halted bec logicals exist.
> 4. Upddta. this shop uses upddta a lot, not just developers. but then it
> has to be F23 and a lot of those.
> 
> Thank you for any concrete info I acknowledge this is a fuzzy topic if this
> is fully off topic please remove.
> 
> Thank you,
> Joe
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