How Auditing Works

You enable auditing on a table in the table's meta-data by specifying the name of the table in which to insert the audit information (the audit table) and the name of the program responsible for inserting the data (the audit trail insert program). Then you define the fields you want to audit by turning on each field's audit switch in the table's field meta-data. You can audit fields for delete, insert and update actions.

Once auditing is enabled for fields in a table, the respective row maintenance program for the table assembles the list of changed fields and calls the audit trail insert program ( CIPZADTA is supplied with the base package). If any of the changed fields are marked for audit, CIPZADTA inserts audit rows into the audit table ( CI_AUDIT is the audit table supplied with the base package).

Note: Customizing Audit Information. You may want to maintain audit information other than what is described in Captured Information or you may want to maintain it in a different format. For example, you may want to maintain audit information for an entire row instead of a field. If so, your implementation team can use CIPZADTA and CI_AUDIT as examples when creating your own audit trail insert program and audit table structures.