Re: Database Trigger Programs

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:25 08/08/2000 , William Washington wrote:
>When creating a trigger program (in RPG/ILE) there is a variable length
>section that contains the before and after image of the record that is
>changed.  I know how to access them with the offsets.
>
>My question is:  How is the length of the data structure (for the first
>parameter of the trigger program) calculated?  I always have to make the
>data area ridiculously large, then go into debug mode to see where it ends.
>Is there a way to do this programmatically?  Any thoughts are appreciated.

There is, and it's to use the physical file's DDS as a template. There's an 
shell program you can download on my website. Click the programming link.

Pete

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
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