Re: audit report -- RPG400-L


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: audit report



>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
>Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com@Internet
>To: RPG400-L@midrange.com@Internet
>cc:
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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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