Re: Trigger Program

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Jeff,

In a message dated 12/28/99 8:20:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
jlcrosby@fwi.com writes:

> You're the first person, besides myself, that I have heard request
>  something like this.  What I have wished for is being able to have a
>  trigger program that is fired when the file is _closed_.  There are a
>  number of instances where a batch process dumps a bunch of records into
>  a file.  When that is done, I want the trigger to fire.  Not for each
>  record, but just once after all records have been added to the file.

How about this:
1.  Journal the file.
2.  Add the trigger to the file.
3.  STRCMTCTL LCKLVL(*CHG).
4.  COMMIT.
5.  CALL program that dumps a bunch of records into the file with the file 
open under commitment control.
6.  COMMIT (records are dumped en masse).
7.  ENDCMTCTL.

May have left something out, and this won't help if multiple jobs are 
updating the file, but it should work if the file is only updated by a batch 
program at night.  The trigger may still fire for every record, though, you'd 
have to test it.  I still don't understand why this is a desirable goal...

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I 
hate." -- George Burns
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