Re: Timestamp when a record is updated...

There is an option when you addpftrg that says allow record buffer updates.
In this case this is exactly what you want to do since you are doing this in
the before update or before insert events.

There are other situations where you could set yourself up for a never
ending loop of triggers but this almost always involves circular references
in the updates. For example trigger in File A writes a record to file B and
trigger in file B writes a record to file A which causes the original
trigger to fire...

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----- Original Message -----
From: Hatzenbeler, Tim <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: Timestamp when a record is updated...


> I have never written a trigger, but I do have a question concerning the
> possibility of looping...
> If you have a file with a trigger.  And you update the file, the trigger
is
> then activated, but if your trigger updates the same file, does it re-call
> the trigger, and start a looping process....
>
> thanks, tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boothm@ibm.net [SMTP:boothm@ibm.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 1:16 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Timestamp when a record is updated...
> >
> > Throw a trigger on the file(s).  Works great.
> >
> >
> > In <4.2.0.58.19990819105744.00b70100@192.168.1.1>, on 08/19/99
> >    at 11:02 AM, Jocke Berggren <jocke@fsys.se> said:
> >
> >
> > >Is there any feature in the database that automaticly sets a timestamp
> > >value whenever a record is updated or added ?
> >
> > >Else we must include z-add timestamp before every updat/write in all
our
> > >porgrams :(
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > boothm@ibm.net
> > Booth Martin
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
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