RE: system event trigger whenever a source file member is updated

Ahh, got it.  Although you frighten me a little bit:

> <snip> processing of the resultant journal entry could happen
>  in the next second or the next week, depending upon <snip>

*Generally speaking*, on an AS/400 for which we are seeing good response
times, batch jobs are running quickly, etc. etc., could we expect that this
might occur in the next second at least 99% of the time?  In other words, if
we're otherwise humming along on our system, there should be no reason why
the processing of the resultant journal entry shouldn't always be done
within, say, 5 seconds?

Will be looking into this further.

- Dan Bale

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@samsa.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: system event trigger whenever a source file member is updated


> >It would operate asynchronously from the member changes, which is
> >also different from triggers. That might be a consideration.
>
> You lost me.  What do you mean by "operate asynchronously"?  FWIW, I have
> never done triggers, but I think I have the concept.

The process that deposits records, runs the trigger, and does not return
from the record operation until the trigger ends. This is synchronous.

The journal would run a totally separate process for the receive from the
journal, so the act of changing the member would be independant of and
therefore asynchronous from the process of receiver data. Two separate jobs
without any dependancy on the completion of one for the continuation of the
other.

In other words, the act of changing the member completes and goes on it's
merry way, and the processing of the resultant journal entry could happen in
the next second or the next week, depending upon design and performance of
the platform.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - iSeries Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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