RE: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a unique IFSdirectory for temporary use?

Nice side effect from using the job name is its easier to track down a
joblog when you have a job number (should you ever need to do that) - its
free info.

Mike Grant
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Subject: Re: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a 
unique IFSdirectory for temporary use?


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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