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| DTFMERGE is a record copy utility
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| It adjusts for variations between source and target. Typical scenario:
You have developed a database that is now in use at 200 locations, but
you have been improving it as you have been shipping it. You need a way
of incorporating the latest improvements into the various copies at those
200 locations.
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| You could send an empty copy of the newest version to the 200 locations,
and have someone copy the data from the old database to the new, empty
one.
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| None of the 200 databases has a merge spec to copy data to the newest
database, since it didn't exist when they were shipped. You could create
a Q&A macro that would define a merge spec, and send the macro in an
ascii file. But you would need a macro for each database that you have
shipped. Do you have a copy of each, so you can build the macro? If you
have a copy of each, do you have the time to create and test these merge
spec macros? And even if you have them, how can someone "in the field"
know which macro to run? |
| DTFMERGE writes that merge spec macro in an instant, and it is so easy
to use it can be done in the field. For example, a customer's MIS person
could do this as part of an upgrade procedure, without even knowing that
a macro is being created on the spot. |
| Of course, you might need a mass update spec to make adjustments to
the data once copied into the new database, but that is a part of the new
database, so it poses no problem.
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| Used in conjunction with DTFBOOST, this process can be entirely automated.
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