RE: PSDS System Date / InternalJobID

Unfortunately QDATE also does not meet the need, as it's value changes across 
midnight.  So if a job starts at 11:00 PM and writes a record to the file with 
the key JobUser/JobName/JobNumber/20000821 (August 21,2000) and 2 hours later 
chains to the file using a freshly retrieved QDATE, the chain will fail, 
despite there being a record in the file for the job.  -DaveK 

> 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
> >
> >-----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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