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Re: CEERAN0 not allways random?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Werner Noll" <werner.noll@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: AW: CEERAN0 not allways random?


> Hi,
>
> I assume you used that API to get an unique record key in a file. I had
> recently the same issue and created therefore a program to generate an
> unique key with 10 digits out from the timestamp. The program runs faster
> than the iSeries can handle time. As the timestamp does not provide lower
> values than milliseconds, I had to monitor duplicate keys.


No, I don't want to generate unique numbers. But when for 20,000 records
only 1600 different numbers (with a power of 16 digits!) are generate by
CEERAN0, something might be gone wrong.

Titus

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