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Sorry if my attitude appeared snarly. I got the impression that you were snarly at IBM for not documenting it. I was just pointing out that they had. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Tracy Ball" <TBall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 03/21/2003 11:00 AM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: Programming a trigger audit in ILE I am not sure I like the "connotation" of your reply. IBM may have, however, this is my first trigger program, and I most certainly did NOT ask this question without spending some considerate time researching and downloading examples. I really could have figured this out on my own, however, this forum did save me quite a bit of time in doing that (and I would hope that is one of many primary functions of this group). -Tracy Ext. 3107 -----Original Message----- From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:36 AM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: RE: Programming a trigger audit in ILE Actually IBM documented the snot out of the change in the 'Memo to users' and a few other places. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Tracy Ball" <TBall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 03/21/2003 08:39 AM Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: Programming a trigger audit in ILE I knew everyone would state to use the offsets, as that is why I even stated in my previous message that , that is the route I would go. However, as I have always done, I want to know why I had to add the extra buffer field when it wasn't in any documentation? 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? I am going to use the offsets, but it still "bothers" me that I had to do that and I don't know why. The other thing I left out is that the second parm length said the first parm was 288 characters when I only came up with 266. 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. How many times have we fixed a program, and then not really understood why or how we fixed it?? Tracy L. Ball The Jackson Group Sr. Programmer/Analyst (317) 781-4600 ext. 3107 -----Original Message----- From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:37 PM To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: Re: Programming a trigger audit in ILE Tracy, In the data structure that's passed to your trigger program there's some fields that give you offset of where the record, null maps, etc are located in memory. You need to use those numbers to locate the data. If you use something like a "filler field" what will happen if they pass you a different number on the next call? Or maybe on the next release of OS/400? I posted a (really old and somewhat outdated) example of this type of code here: http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/199908/msg00110.html Keep in mind that in newer releases of OS/400 you can eliminate the awkward array logic and replace it with pointer arithmetic... but this code will still work. On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tracy Ball wrote: > > I have just done my first trigger program in ILE. I could not get my > program to work until I inserted (what seems) is an extra filler field > in the parameter 1 buffer field between the old record null map and the > new record field. > > I just downloaded the redbook from V5R1 and it has no mention of this > spacing issue. Here is my program, can someone tell me what I am > missing or if that is the way I needed to do it. Once I understand this > process more, I will use the offset fields to pick up the start/end > positions of the old/new records, however, I am still puzzled why I > needed this additional field. > _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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