Re: Is a General File Maintenance Routine possible?

sbelt_at_dpcsystems.com
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:10:19 -0500

Hi Robert,

My background is in accounting and business admin. I'm one of
those who "morphed into a programmer " by asking too many
questions.

Everything you say here is correct. What ever I did would have
to meet AICPA standards.

This would be for testing purposes, minor corrections after a
power outage, debugging bad data, etc.

After reading everyone's ideas, I think I may have figured out
a way of doing this. If it works out, I'll come back and let you
know.

Thanks everyone for you input and ideas.

Shawn

On 17 Sep 2004 13:22:09 -0700, rjones0@hotmail.com (Robert Jones)
wrote:

>message snipped
>
>Hello Shawn
>
>To go off on a somewhat different tack, I would be very wary of
>fiddling with files without using the programs designed for the
>purpose in a production system. Certainly, for accounting purposes
>such as the journals you mentioned, an audit trail of all changes is
>highly desirable, and an accountant might be very unhappy with changes
>being applied in such an ad-hoc manner as you suggest.
>
>Many organisations would also be generally unhappy about changes being
>applied in such an unregulated manner and you would have to be careful
>to ensure that the people using such tools have the appropriate
>authorisation.
>
>By all means buy, borrow or write general purpose update facilities
>but try to restrict your use of them to test environments, they can be
>very useful for tweaking test data to satisfy particular conditions.
>A print program for each file is often a useful asset, especially if
>it also checks and reports fields with invalid data.
>
>As others have mentioned there are several professional products that
>will provide batch or online updating of files, using copybooks to
>present the data in an easily manipulable form, some might be
>shareware or free if you do the appropriate online searches. Some
>have even suggested ways of you doing this yourself.
>
>Regards, Robert

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