A while ago, International Spectrum posted a great article that outlined the process of auditing changes in a file through the use of an indexing subroutine. This works well for record changes and I have been thinking that it would be especially useful if I could track changes to dictionaries in a file. Has anyone found a way to do this?
The record changes work thanks to a special dictionary in the file that is indexed:
CREATE.INDEX MYFILE AUDIT.RECORDS NO.NULLS
For dictionary auditing to work, it would be necessary to index the dictionary itself, which I don't think I can do. Is there a way to add it to the VOC or some other strategy entirely?
>CREATE.INDEX
File name: DICT MYFILE
Index name(s): AUDIT.DICT
Cannot find field name AUDIT.DICT in file dictionary or VOC, no index created.
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My goal is to write dictionary changes to flat files for windows-friendly backups and possible integration with version control. I'm curious to hear if anyone has any ideas. Thanks!
(We're running UniVerse version 11.2.4 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and we still default to PICK flavor on our main accounts.)
You certainly can make a VOC pointer to a dictionary like this:
F D_MYFILE DICT.DICT
And treat your dictionary like a file. UniVerse 11.2 also has some built in Audit Logging capabilities you can read about in Chapter 7 of the UniVerse Security Features manual: http://docs.rocketsoftware.com/nxt/gateway.dll/RKBnew20%2Funiverse%2Fv11.2.4%2Funiverse_securityfeaturesusersguide_v1124.pdf