Dependents - before and after changes on a report

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SueS
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    Our benefits area would like an automated report that shows the before and after values of certain fields. By this I mean, if an employee changed their dependent's birthdate from 2/1/1992 to 2/1/2002 they would like to see both values on the report. Since changes to the dependent table are not logged in history I am uncertain how to do this. Has anybody else had to do this? Any suggestions are appreciated.
    Paul Berkowitz
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      Hi Sue,

      I have a similar request from our Benefit Department. We are looking developing a Oracle Trigger to record all the identified emdepden data to a new table. After the data is stored, a crystal report would be developed to read the file.

      A short term suggestion is to run a automated query to copy the employee number, dependent number and the birth date to a flat file each night and compare the the two files for a changes.

      Paul
      Shane Jones
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        Sue,
        If you have process flow integrator with JDBC enabled I could show you a solution that runs weekly to find any changes in a table. (Technically, it can be used with any table that does not have logging enabled.)
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        SueS
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          Hi Shane,

          I am told that we have process flow integrator with JDBC enabled. Anything that you can provide would be great.

          Thanks,
          Sue 
          John Henley
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            Another option is Smart Notifications, which is perfect for tracking before/after changes in datasets.
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            John
            SueS
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              My understanding of smart notes is that you can only capture the latest data for the report and not both the before and after data.  Is there a way to capture both before and after data on a smart note?
              John Henley
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                The way LSN works with infosets makes it a decent tool for tracking and notifying/reporting changes. Here’s a quick example I put together to show how it “noticed” the change in this dependent’s social number:
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                John