Triggering Events

Signal events can be triggered on an ad hoc or periodic basis.

Triggering an Ad Hoc Event

Write code to call an API which in turn, triggers the event.

For example, the code given below triggers ad hoc signals.

eventType = "COB"        ;* Record ID of IF.SIGNAL.PARAMETER
    signalRequests = ""
    tmp = ""
    tmp<1> = "COBStarted"
    tmp<2> = "Yes"
    tmp<3> = "COB Started on 20190101"
    
    signalRequests<-1> = LOWER(tmp)
    
    tmp = ""
    tmp<1> = "jobName"
    tmp<2> = "Test Job"
    tmp<3> = "Test Jon Started"
    
    signalRequests<-1> = LOWER(tmp)
    
    signalResponses =""
    responseDetails = ""
    CALL IntegrationFrameworkService.signal(eventType, signalRequests, signalResponses)

Periodic Trigger

You use periodic triggers to generate signal messages based on frequency. The possible frequency can be D, Dnn, M, Mnn, W, Y, Ynn.

A new TSA service IF.TRIGGER.SIGNAL is introduced to pick a record based on the next run date and generate the messages. Every time after the service runs, it updates the last run date and next run date for the respective signal based on the specified frequency.

Triggering Periodic Events

Follow the steps below to trigger periodic events.

Ensure that TSA Service IF.TRIGGER.SIGNAL is running in the background.
In the IF.SIGNAL.PARAMETER table, set the FREQUENCY parameter. This determines the frequency by which the signal message is generated. See The IF.SIGNAL.PARAMETER Table for details.

Different Frequency Setting examples.