Re: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a unique IFS directory for temporary use?

If you can access a data area in C than you could just increment a counter.

Albert

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From: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a unique IFS       
directory for temporary use?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:58:28 -0700


The Qp0wGetJobID idea worked (but it did require the
getpid(); either the docs, or my understanding of them,
were wrong about being able to just pass a zero).

And the timestamp idea would have been acceptable, given
that this is a maintenance utility where a time collision
is more likely to occur in testing than in production.

And with regard to tmpnam() having separate IFSIO and
NOIFSIO versions, that possibility never occurred to me. I
don't often use fopen(), as I've become accustomed to
using UNIX-type I/O for IFS files, record I/O for QSYS
files, and STDIO only for interactive I/O, or for those
rare cases when I want to use a source PF for initial
tests on something that's eventually going to be reading
from an IFS file.

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JHHL
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