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Alan,

I believe your only option would be a trigger (Add, Update) to force a
value change.

If you wanted this for NEW records (not update), you could do this with
a view that does not expose that timestamp field. Then, on write to
this view, the missing timestamp would initialize to current_timestamp.
I have not tried this in ages, so my confidence level is low...

Hth,
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 3:44 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Timestamp on a file

Afternoon everyone

I KNOW that I've seen this (well, I think I have)
Is there a way to define a timestamp on a file that will automatically
change each and every time the record is written/updated WITHOUT any
coding
changes to any programs.
Obviously re-compiles would be needed, but that's all

As always
any responses:- MUCH appreciated



Alan Shore
Programmer/Analyst, Distribution
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