Re: Timestamp when a record is updated...

Anything that updates a record will set off the associated trigger program.
You can not get around it as the database manager is what actually calls it.

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Eric N. Wilson
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----- Original Message -----
From: End of the Trail <endofthetrail@skyenet.net>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: Timestamp when a record is updated...


> I do not think that DFU will set off a trigger.  DBU will! and most
> everything else that touches the file.
>
> Eurrat    endofthetrail@skyenet.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Timestamp when a record is updated...
>
>
> >Use a trigger program.  They aren't all that hard.  I use one just to do
> >this same thing.  It also records the user who made the change.  This way
> >it catches it no matter how they update the file:  my custom green screen
> >ap, UPDDTA, PC program, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >jocke@fsys.se on 08/19/99 05:00:47 AM
> >Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com@Internet
> >To: RPG400-L@midrange.com@Internet
> >cc:
> >Fax to:
> >Subject: Timestamp when a record is updated...
> >
> >Is there any feature in the database that automaticly sets a
> >timestamp value whenever a record is updated or added ?
> >
> >Else we must include z-add timestamp before every updat/write
> >in all our porgrams :(
> >
> >
> >
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