On Sunday, March 9, 2014 2:01:46 PM UTC-4, Kevin Powick wrote: > > A dict item does not provide summary information for an entire file. > > Unfortunately, you haven't really described your end goal, only what > you're trying to do with a dict item. What are trying to ultimately > accomplish? Are you trying to produce a report with specific information, > such a summary totals? > > -- > Kevin Powick >
Thank you for your response. We are electronically pushed information on collection accounts from our client - such as the name of the debtor, address, etc. in a file called ACCOUNT. ACCOUNT does not contain a history of payments, which is very important to us. We are also pushed transaction information in a separate file called TRANS, described above. TRANS contains payment information (along with a lot of irrelevant noise such as account adjustments and incremental interest), but those payments are split to different "buckets" across accounts. For example, a $100 payment may be split $50 to principal, $25 to interest and $25 to collection costs. I am trying to reassemble these split transactions to identify the $100 payment using a dictionary item, by taking each account number and adding the actual payments (marked by a "3" in attribute 9) for each date together in a sum. My thought would be then to use the dictionary item to export and write a file of just the actual payments per date per account that I could access from ACCOUNT using a translate dictionary item. But I am not really sure how I will solve the many-to-one problem (one account number may have a multitude of payments over time, making it difficult to make the account number the primary key for a translate lookup). The long and the short of it is that I am trying to do something that is probably better left to a PICK BASIC program, but I haven't learned PICK well enough to do it yet. > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
