Comments on: How to determine if ANY fields have changed in a file, when user maintains a record of info http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-determine-if-any-fields-have-changed-in-a-file-when-user-maintains-a-record-of-info/ Sat, 25 May 2013 17:28:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-determine-if-any-fields-have-changed-in-a-file-when-user-maintains-a-record-of-info/#comment-71210 tomliotta Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:36:36 +0000 #comment-71210 Note that journaling for this purpose may require both before and after images.

Also, recent database journal enhancements allow CRTJRN MINENTDTA(*FLDBDY) which might make STRJRNPF IMAGES(*BOTH) more attractive — at the cost of potentially more complex auditing.

Tom

]]> By: toddn2000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-determine-if-any-fields-have-changed-in-a-file-when-user-maintains-a-record-of-info/#comment-71194 toddn2000 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:33:31 +0000 #comment-71194 can be done a few ways.

I agree the easiest would be to turn on journaling if you want every posibility of change being caught.

If you are only interested in changes within the application you could store the fieds in a data structure when retrieved, then compare the values before the update is done.

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