data in wrong file

[Chris Sharman]

JOHAN Johan Koelewijn wrote:
> Sometimes we have the problem that the data of record A is written in record B
> Record B has a 1:n relation with record A but has a different layout (other items).
> 
> In both records there is substructure defined including an item that covers the whore record. The names of these items are not the same. There is no statement like :
> let a-record of a = b-record of b
> 
> Any ideas how this can happen?

No - not a problem I've seen.
Are you sure it's Powerhouse doing it ?
Are you sure it's quick, rather than qtp (or quiz if you're talking of 
subfiles) ?
Any external procedures which could be trampling data ?

Likely a programmer error, I'm afraid - you could try to narrow it down 
with some auditing, frequent backups to disk, etc.

Look out for use of accept, display, edit etc in procedures where you 
shouldn't, such as input, edit etc (there's warnings and cautions in the 
reference manuals which are best heeded) - you can trash the value of 
fieldtext, and thereby transfer data between unrelated fields.

> Openvms 7.1
> Powerhouse 7.10g
> RMS file structure

Ditto.

Chris


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