Triggers - READ

[jlowary@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Does anyone know whether IBM is planning to make the Read trigger more 
like the Insert, Update triggers?  (ie: that the data in the buffer can be 
change before it is passed to the program)   I did some looking in the 
Archives and could only find that any changes to the buffers are not 
passed on to the program requesting the data.

We have an application that we would like to encrypt data (field or two) 
in to another file and store a pointer in the original file, then when the 
record is read have a trigger get the encrypted data and decrypt it all or 
part and pass on to the calling program via the file input buffer.  This 
would save putting a log of duplicated, needless logic (except for the 
decryption) in lots of programs.  Sure we could do some sort of service 
program, or program to call (if not ILE), but the best approach would be 
to have it passed into the existing programs via a read trigger.

Just wondering if IBM has addressed this or made any statement about thier 
direction on this?  I couldn't find anything more, other than the Nov 2001 
Archives messages.

Thanks!

-- Jim Lowary