Re: audit report -- RPG400-L

Someone had a good idea with the matching records.

I'd like to save you some time in setup.  Forget DSPFFD.  
That is a big waste of time.  Any release after V2R3 has 
several files on disk that, (if you are like us and have 
SEVERAL copies of BPCS on a system), can eat huge quantities 
of disk.  You might as well use these new files.  They 
have all the information that DSPFFD has, and then some.  
Do a WRKF QADB* for a list of these files.
QADBIFLD might be the one you want.

For example:
SELECT DBIFLD, DBIITP, DBITYP, DBITXT FROM qadbifld WHERE
DBILIB='GPIDIVF' and DBIFIL='IIM'
FIELD       INTERNAL  FIELD     FIELD                    
NAME        TYPE      TYPE      TEXT                     
IID            A      CHAR      Record ID; IM/IZ         
IPROD          A      CHAR      Item Number              
IDESC          A      CHAR      Item Description         
IADJ           P      DECIMAL   Month to Date Adjustments
IRCT           P      DECIMAL   Month to Date Receipts   
IISS           P      DECIMAL   Month to Date Issues     
...



Want to change a field?  Try:
select DBILIB, DBIFIL from QADBIFLD where DBIFLD = 'MANAGR'
LIBRARY     FILE     
NAME        NAME     
ACCTINTRFC  FREF     
ACTATJO     FREF     
ACTINTF     FREF     
ACTINTO     FREF     
ACTINT40    ACTINTCDO
ACTINT40    FREF     
ACTINT404   FREF     
DPDLUCF30   FREF     
MGRTEST002  EMPJOB   
ELPFILE     FREF     
MGRTEST099  EMPFLUFF 
...




Kmh0421@aol.com on 07/13/99 11:18:21 AM
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Subject:        audit report

Hello to all. I am currently writing a report that prints all records for a 
customer from several files. Actually, instead of journalling, my customer 
created an 'audit' file for each of their major files. There are transaction 
types of add, change before, change after and delete. Each audit file has 
different fields, they are carbon copies of their original PF. This report is 
supposed to show only changed fields (with field descriptions), before and 
after. What I am in the process of doing is this:
In the CLP, I DSPFFD to an outfile of all of the files. In the RPG, I read 
this file and load an array with field names and descriptions. I read through 
address book (customer master), and go out to each audit file to see if there 
are changes for that day for that customer. The report has misc header info, 
but the detail is only 4 fields... Type, Field Description, Before, After. If 
there are records in a file for a given day, and it is an add or delete 
record, I just print it in the before or after column. If change, I check 
each field in the change before against the change after record, and print 
only the 'changed' fields. So, far, I have just one file in the RPG, and I am 
in the process of adding about six more. The code is already over 2000 
lines..... At the very least, I am going to need to create a program for 
everyfile, and somehow share the printfile so that each program can write 
detail records to same report. Overall, although this is going to work, I can 
help but think there must be a better way. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, 
especially if you even read this far!!! Kathie

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