Month: September 2022

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Learn about MERLIN for IBM i

You may have heard about IBM’s new MERLIN tools for modern RPG development methodology. But what is it, really, and how would it benefit your shop? Seiden Group’s Jack Woehr, one of the top MERLIN advocates in the country, will be presenting three talks on MERLIN at COMMON NAViGATE on Oct. 4–5, 2022: MERLIN Administration MERLIN IDE MERLIN CI/CD We invite you to attend Jack’s talks on MERLIN at NAViGATE. This conference is being held both online and in person. You can also get in touch with us if you would like a deeper conversation about the MERLIN development toolset,…

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Determining which objects have changed since last save

There is an old library, I am going to call it OLDLIB1, that is still in everyone’s library list. I needed to determine if there are files in this library that are still changed. I have used the word “changed” rather than “used” as they mean two different things. A file is used when it is opened in a program, the data within might not be changed. A file is changed when a record is added to the file, modified, or deleted. At present the entire library is saved using the SAVLIB command once a week. But if files are still being used we need to do a more often backup.

I can get to this information using the Display Object Description command, DSPOBJD, but with that I have to build an output file and then search the output file for the information I need.

Fortunately the SQL View SYSTABLESTAT contains the information too in the following columns:

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