Re: Triggers

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Should be able to ... a trigger program runs in the same job as the program
that caused the trigger, doesn't it?

If a job is interactive, it's on a green screen, right?

At 09:47 AM 8/23/98 , boothm@ibm.net wrote:
>Now you raise an interesting point... could the trigger program retrieve a
>piece of information so that it'd know if it is a green screen or not? 
>or, monitor for a message?  If green screen, continue; if not, send a
>message to the user and/or the QSYSECOFR?
>
>In <35DFA0C4.3E74CB0F@wt.net>, on 08/22/98 
>   at 09:55 PM, Bob Larkin <blarkin@wt.net> said:
>
>
>>Booth
>>2. You will have a mess.I am assuming the Non Green Screen app is not
>>simply a GUI session (ie. Seagull's GUI/400). We have VB applications
>>that update AS/400 records using SQL packages. The trigger fires, then an
>>error code is set if the trigger does not like the record. The PC
>>receives an indication that the record was not written, with an SQL code
>>to describe the error. There would be no interactive session associated
>>with the I/O request, so the program would fail. Bob
>
>>boothm@ibm.net wrote:
>
>>> When one puts a trigger on a physical file:
>>>
>>> 2-What happens if a field is accessed/changed with a non-green screen
>>> application like Access if the trigger validates a field, and if invalid,
>>> starts an interactive window displaying valid choices?  (There is a file
>>> that is used in a very elaborate and integrated purchased package.  We
>>> want to validate a few fields in the file against acceptable responses in
>>> another file.  A trigger does that very nicely.  We don't access the file
>>> with any non-green screen applications now, nor do we plan to, but we are
>>> wondering what would happen if the future changed our mind.)
>>>
>>> tia
>>>
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