Re: Update a field in a file from the trigger on the same file

I really hate the never ending job, or the job that starts every x
minutes, to do this stuff. Some of these I've seen to be real I/O hogs.
Granted, if done right they do not need to be. But, having rewritten some
of these...

Oh well.

Stick with the trigger that is what it is there for.
Study the parameters to a trigger program very carefully. You can do this
without adding one single I/O. In the parameters is a 'before' buffer and
an 'after' buffer. You can take that one column and change it right there
in the trigger by setting the after buffer. Possibly the only file
declaration you'll need is not a file spec, but the file only to appear to
define an external data structure to define the before and after buffers.
If you want to, you can log audits of what you changed. In that log you
can put the name of the program, user, job, whatever. They're all
parameters to the trigger program.

To modify that buffer you'll also need ALWREPCHG.
ADDPFTRG ALWREPCHG(*YES)



Rob Berendt