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Scott, What he is saying is to check the old/new buffer and see if they differ at all. A lot of times an edit program does an UPDATE when actually no update was really performed. Thus you've lost your old history if you update the timestamp. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Scott Mildenberger <scottmildenberger@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 07/25/2003 08:21 AM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: Record was Change That is why it is a good idea to use a trigger to update the "job stamp" info, then it is consistently updated regardless of what other programs do. Scott Mildenberger --- keith_mccully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I've used file "job stamps" a lot and normally find them very > useful. Just > one caveat: make sure that there is control over usage and > updates. For > example, I've seen too many "edit record" programs that update > the "job > stamp" change details regardless of whether anything has > actually been > changed (confirm = No)! > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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