Re: Timestamp when a record is updated...

Yes.  You can handle it with *NEW activation groups or with trigger
procedures, but it is still very tricky and requires a lot of planning.
Sometimes your trigger will need to know if it is the "original" call or one
"down-the-line".  A lot depends on what the triggers actually do.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hatzenbeler, Tim <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com' <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 7:36 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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