Re: PSDS System Date / InternalJobID

UDATE is in adequate because it can change during the interactive session,
albeit not automatically at midnight.  -Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Crothers <bob@cstoneindy.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: PSDS System Date / InternalJobID


> How about using UDATE?  That is the Job Date and does not change at
> midnight.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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