RE: Cheaper Servers?

RPG III triggers would have a problem with date/time data types but RPG IV
works just fine.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SCarter@rsrcorp.com [mailto:SCarter@rsrcorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers?
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>
> I just want to ask is this a true statement?
> We do not have the SQL Toolkit we are on V5R1 and have not
> used many triggers on the DB files.
> One thing that struck me as odd is the statement that RPG
> could not handle
> the date and time data types or null values.
>
>
> "I am asking this question because the old Load Schedule used system
> triggers that I wrote in RPG to autoincrement primary keys.
> I tried the
> same technique for the J2EE version of the Load Schedule, but
> it does not
> work because the new tables use date and time data types (so
> that it is
> easier to work with Java) and because of null values."
>
>
> Also, what is the prefered method for writing triggers? RPG, SQL
>
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