Re: Call a RPG program from a PC

That is actually pretty slick, once you think about it.  Think about this
too, a trigger can see the data that was written to the file.  So, the
trigger program could actually look at the record that might contain
what program to run, or any parameters, or whatever.

Excellant idea.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Buck Calabro wrote:

> Craggs, Dave wrote:
>
> <SNIP>

> >2) create a second file and put the trigger on that one. When
> >your input has been completed, write a single record to this
> >second file to trigger the required processing.
>
> That hadn't occurred to me at all.  I was thinking about REXEC but that
> requires the PC have REXEC (Windows NT?).  Then there's ftp and RCMD, but
> that requires the AS/400 to allow ftp access.  A trigger would fit pretty
> well in an ODBC scheme because the user already has ODBC access...  Very
> slick!

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