I've used the Netbase user exit feature for Allbase/SQL shadowing,
and it works nicely.  Is the entire record available here
though?  As Larry pointed out before, everything isn't
necessarily in the standard Image logfiles.
 
Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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Sent:   Wednesday, May 08, 1996 11:58 AM
To:     Editcorp
Subject:        Re: AIF:PE Question
 
 
Item Subject: AIF:PE Question
John writes:
>Am I out of luck trying to write AIF:PE handlers that make TurboImage
>calls?  Or is there a work-around, such as copying the TurboImage
>modules from XL.PUB.SYS to the UDSL containing my AIF:PE handlers?
 
You can't copy TurboImage into another XL, as it runs at ring zero and
XL.PUB.SYS is one of the few places that such code is allowed to reside.
 
You can write replacement Image calls and put them in a user XL file and
run your application through this XL file, but as someone else pointed out,
there are several complexities in doing this, such as the restriction to
only using the star "*;" list on calls that you make to the user's open
database.
 
Another way of handling the problem is to enable Image Logging for that
database.  The logfiles will contain the information you need.  You can
even read the logfiles in real-time without too much trouble to capture
updates almost immediately after they happen.
 
Yet another option would be to use NetBase from Quest to do the data
capture for you. You would only have to write an "Export UserExit"
procedure which NetBase would then automatically call for each update
done to the database.  Quest has already solved all the hard problems
for you.
 
G.