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  3. June 2008

Re: Trigger programme without a trigger.

Joe,

I was wondering when you were going to pipe up on this one. I knew you
were no big fan of constraints and formerly worked for a company that was
known to never put a primary key on a file, and, not even make the
"primary" key UNIQUE in any logical associated with the physical. With
the logic being that all updates to the files were supposed to go through
the standard 5250 data entry programs. Although the labor associated with
making something to emulate punching the keystrokes during a file
conversion or a merge was rather astronomical.
Now, I do realize that the I/O modules often touted by those who:
- have the ability to write the I/O modules
- are never restricted themselves to only using the I/O modules and
forbidden to even know the layout of the files
are quite different than being restricted to 5250 data entry programs.

Rob Berendt

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