RE: Programming a trigger audit in ILE

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I mean, if the offsets are the only way to 
>go, then why don't the buffer example just have one big field 
>that contains the old/new record values and tell you to use 
>the offsets to determine the starting and ending points, 
>rather than show individual fields?  

That technique works.  You do not need pointers to use offsets.  You can
describe the record as a giant array and use an array index as the offset.
Or you can go nuts and use substring.  The idea is the same: use the
"offset" values given in the trigger buffer to locate the record, and DON'T
ASSUME that the record data always starts in the same place in the trigger
buffer.

>Thanks for the input, as I know I have more work to do. I was 
>just curious if there was an actual reason why I needed to 
>input the extra field when it wasn't illustrated in any 
>documented examples.

Sounds like you are looking at less than stellar examples.

>How many times have we fixed a program, and then not 
>really understood why or how we fixed it??  

In my case, never.  If I don't understand the code then I don't put it into
production.
  --buck