RE: PSDS System Date / InternalJobID

At 11:19 AM 8/21/00 -0500, you wrote:

If I am not mistaken, UDATE does not change either.  I suspect that you 
have to retrieve the system value QDATE.

Al


>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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