Re: Suggestions

If you are not yet at a release level that supports the identity column, 
you can do a *HIVAL SETGT /READP (assuming this 'serial number' is the 
key) or keep track of the last used value in a data area.

Terry Richardson
Vermont Information Processing, Inc.
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Look up identity column here
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/sqlp/rbafysqlpidentity.htm

It will automatically generate the next number for you.

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I have a physical file that will hold gas type information, but one of the 


fields needs to be an integer id field.  My experience with other db 
formats 
is that I could set that field to auto generate so that as each record is 
written it will increment the count by 1.  we will be using this for cross 


referencing to some other files and must be unique.

I know I can read through the file and increment a counter, but that seems 


to have a huge overhead, not to mention that as time goes on, it'll take 
longer and longer to calculate.

Does anyone have a viable suggestion on how to accomplish this? 

Douglas

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