Re: QADBXREF question

[G Armour <garmour400r@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I won't be of much help to you, but, yes, I seem to remember that 
QADBXREF is
"special".  I don't remember specifics, but you may have to go after your info 
with
query or SQL.  I would think that Query would be much easier and give you all 
the
info you need.

HTH, GA

--- Dave Thurston <dthurston@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> My company recently upgraded their software and my boss wants me to "review
> all the files for changes".  Don't ask why I can't just ask the real
> programmers - long story.  Anyway, I have a library with the current files
> and a library with the old files.  I also have a file that contains the
> names of all of our files (and a logical over that for just the physical
> files).  So I thought I would just read my file with the physical file names
> and chain to the QADBXREF to figure out the number of fields and/or the
> record length.  The key to QADBXREF is the library name and the file name.
> I would just chain to QADBXREF with the old library/file name and then chain
> with the new library/file name and if there was a difference in the record
> length/number of fields there would be a good chance that the file had been
> changed.  So I do my chain to QADBXREF and I don't get a hit.  I know the
> key is correct.  And I know the record exists in the QADBXREF file.   Is
> there something special about QADBXREF?



        
                
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