This was for diagnosing what happened. Access to the file is generally programmatically controlled. VERY few of us actually have access to edit a record directly. And from what I can find no one edited the record via TCL. The change was fairly benign and easily corrected, but the fact that the handful of people who have such access all said they didn't touch it prompted an investigation. I've been able through other means to pinpoint a 30 minute window when the record got changed. I also know it was not done though our menu system by the logfile that even less know it exists, and only 2 of us even know where it lives. I'm also currently running a search on the equate for the changed field in the record to see if a program that shouldn't be updating it is out there. Next will be looking for a write without using the equate deck. I've done some trials with using a trigger on another file. However, the performance hit was unacceptable. I'm hoping to revisit triggers after a pending OS and UV upgrade. I hadn't heard of the index idea before... that's a pretty cool thought. I may play with that. Thanks all for the input. Rob
>>> Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> 8/20/2010 3:53 PM >>> On 20/08/10 15:08, Robert Porter wrote: > Are TCL command histories stored in a file by any chance? I'm trying to find > how a record got updated, and it doesn't appear to have gone through our > standard program which updates the record with a who/when timestamp. You can do it with an i-descriptor, or a trigger ... you can force a file to log that info. So it doesn't matter HOW the file is updated, the info will be recorded. What you want to do is either create an update trigger that adds the date, time and user to the record, or create an i-descriptor that calls SUBR() to write key, date, time and user to another file. If you go down the i-descriptor route, declare that field as an index, and it will be updated every time the record is updated. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
