RE: PSDS System Date / InternalJobID

How about using UDATE?  That is the Job Date and does not change at
midnight.

Bob

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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of David Keck
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:44 PM
To: Midrange-L
Subject: PSDS System Date / InternalJobID

    I am defining a file to contain info related to interactive jobs with
one uniquely keyed record per relevant interactive job.  The info may
persist for a long time.  The natural key of JobUser/JobName/JobNumber might
in a rare circumstance yield a duplicate as the system recycles job numbers.
I would like to get some "insurance" by adding the system date that the
interactive job started on as a 4th key element.  I see a system date
defined in position 276-281 of the PSDS, but am unsure if it is the system
date from when the job started or a "copy" of the system date, which would
change across midnight.  Does anyone know for sure ?  If not I'll just test
it tonight.  However, ...
    ... If the PSDS system date changes across midnight it will not meet my
needs, in which case I am considering appropriating the Internal Job
Identifier from the Retrieve Job Info API QUSRJOBI.  This will be useful to
me assuming that the Internal Job Identifier is not a function of a
JobUser/JobName/JobNumber ... that is to say: If a particular job today is
known as BOBZ/INTJOB/123456 and has an internal identifier of "x", and a
year from now another job is created in the system as BOBZ/INTJOB/123456,
then I am assuming that the internal job identifier would be very unlikely
to also be "x" (the same as it was a year ago).  Does my assumption line up
with reality ?        Thx- Dave K.

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