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- sjl
Joel wrote:
I hate when that happens - divide and conquer - yuck!
My suggestions:
1) Place all years of data in one SALES-ALL-YEARS file, with added key at
end to uniquely identify year (as others suggested)
2) Create a logical file for 2012 named SALES2012, which selects only 2012
records (leave off the YEAR field on these, or level check *NO of you are
feeling lucky)
3) Same for other past years that pgms need to touch (SALES2011, SALES1010,
etc)
4) Create one empty SALES file for compiling
At this point, all production jobs will still function, because the files
will be named as expected
Over the course of days, months, (or years as can happen), you can take your
time and modify pgms to handle externalizing the files and setting the
selection date criteria.
5) last step, when all pgms have been modified to use the SALES-ALL-YEARS
file, delete the LFs.
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