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Requirement:- To track any changes to Two files A and B and write fields of A and B to an output file C. A is related to B (A.Employee = B.Employee) Could you please suggest a good approach for this? I am currently using the approach of journalling. 1. Both A and B are journalled. 2. If Any changes to A, then the fields of the changed record of A and corresponding record of B are written to C 3. If Any changes to B, then the fields of the changed record of B and corresponding record of A are written to C. (If already present, Update else insert) Do you think this is a good approach?Please provide your valuable inputs. Regards, EsJay
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Hi EsJay

Journalling the files is a good way to achieve what you want although as an alternative you could look at the use of database triggers.

A database trigger can be defined to call a program whenever the physical files are updated (or records created).

There are a lot of examples you can find via Google, search for “database triggers as400”, although a good general page with an example can be found at http://www.tylogix.com/Articles/TriggerTechniques.htm

Hope it helps

All the best

Jonathan

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