Re: how is data arrived at in table/column?

bravo Rob bravo...

that is exactly right! That has been my experience with these type
requests also.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:03 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No. But it will show you where the data was updated and you can look that
up from there.

I'm not saying it's a cure all but it does help.

I'm also willing to bet that by the time you figure that out the person
who put in the request will be distracted by other pressing concerns and
will no longer care.


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From: "Jay Vaughn" <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/10/2018 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: how is data arrived at in table/column?
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that won't show the calculations the pgm had to do to arrive the data.


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:24 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Show them the journals.


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From: "Jay Vaughn" <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"

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Date: 12/10/2018 10:17 AM
Subject: how is data arrived at in table/column?
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So being in the legacy world for 20+ years and working with ancient
cobol/rpg code that a single pgm can span 10k+ lines of code, I still

have

not found an efficient way to answer clients requests of "how is the

data

arrived at in this table/column?" Aside from a whole lot of time,

effort

and grunt work.

How do others handle these requests?
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