RE: Trigger-happy

From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Craig Richards
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 7:31 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Trigger-happy

Thanks all for replying - that was very instructive.

I've only had a chance for a quick look for now but I appreciate your links and
sharing and I'll make time to investigate further.

Kevin, I like the simplicity of this approach and I can see the ease with which
things can be switched on and off.

I'm assuming that because you have both the program name and program
library in your file, that the program is called through a variable.

And if you are calling a program via a variable, if I remember correctly it will
resolve it every time?

If my memory and assumptions are correct that tells me that you could
actually change the called program ( the one in the file ) and get currently
active jobs to recognise it immediately rather than them working with a
QRPLOBJ version until they sign off.
Can you confirm this?

thanks kindly,
Craig

On 27 February 2018 at 13:07, Kevin Bucknum
<Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

All of our files that have triggers get the same program as the trigger.
When the trigger fires, we take the file, library, event type, and
time, and go out to a file. If there is an active entry, we call the
program and pass along the buffer that is needed. You can have
multiple entries and call multiple trigger handlers as needed. Not as
sophisticated as Alan Campin's program, but it has worked well for us
over the years. The file looks like this:
Key Field Length Dec Type From To Text
TGDLCD 1 A 1 1 DELETE CODE
K2 TGFNM 10 A 2 11 FILE NAME
K1 TGFLIB 10 A 12 21 FILE LIBRARY
K3 TGSQ 5 0 P 22 24 TRIGGER SEQUENCE
TGDESC 50 A 25 74 DESCRIPTION
TGPNM 10 A 75 84 PROGRAM NAME
TGPLIB 10 A 85 94 PROGRAM LIBRARY
TGTIME 1 A 95 95 TRIGGER TIME
TGEVNT 1 A 96 96 TRIGGER EVENT
UISOURCE 1 A 97 97 ENTRY SOURCE

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Craig Richards
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 4:38 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Trigger-happy

One technique I’ve seen for triggers is to have the actual trigger

program do

nothing more than forward the trigger buffer data on to another

program.

That way the logic can be changed without having to remove the
trigger program from the file which requires exclusive access.

( I know this doesn’t solve the issue of currently running jobs

continuing to

access the old object )

One part of my application won’t like this but I could resolve my

particular

problem by putting the program in the same library as the file (
which

IBM

recommend anyway ) but I’d be interested to find out if anyone else
uses this as a general approach?

Thanks,
Craig
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