RE: Trigger question

This is a _very_ bad idea.

Besides the fact that a trigger program could be fire within a batch job, the real problem is that the
trigger program in invoked by the DB code deep in the OS. I doubt that you'd even be able to call a
program that uses a display file even when the trigger is fired in an interactive job.

Even if you could...I'd strongly advise against it. That's just not the way triggers are designed to
work.

How did you plan to handle the need for additional info when the job is batch?



Charles Wilt
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones Simon
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:47 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Trigger question

Hello all,

I have a trigger program which calls after an update to a database file,
that works fine.

A requirement has come up where some of the processing which is done by
the trigger program will need some user input by way of an interactive
screen. Instead of adding this screen to the trigger program I was
looking at adding a call to a new program from the trigger program. I'm
trying to work out if this will cause any problems - the trigger program
will be active for the duration of the time that the screen is displayed
and processed.

The obvious problem I've though of is the danger of trying to open the
display file in a batch job, but we can cater for this. But what I cant
work out is if this call to an intractive program will cause any issues
within the trigger program.

My initial thoughts are that this is likely to be a bad idea, but I'm
not really sure why!

Hopefully I've made that clear

Simon

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