Re: General ideas on researching deleted records

OK good idea I will tell the manager about the cache.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Hoteltravelfundotcom <
hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe that they don't have journaling. I am working with i data but
> mainly in Crystal reports. I have only writer 2-3 RPG reports in 2 years
> and always in the test environment.
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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