RE: "Reference #"

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Righto Tom :-)

Makes life SO much fun trying to figure out what time zone we are in
compared to others at what point in the year :-)

And a lot of folks don't know that this is JUST for the "central" part of
the state, to further complicate things...

Chuck


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Just to beat a dead horse, Booth, but Chuck is from the heart of Indiana. 
Time change does not apply, (yet).

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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There's no purpose served by using a sequential number except uniqueness. 
If you want uniqueness just go for a random number.  The chances of a 
random
number duplicating are slim, and the delay to renumber in those few
instances is a small delay indeed.  Forget about using the timestamp for
uniqueness.  Its troublesone and buys you nothing.
 
If you are going to use the time stamp, remember to set the clock back in
the fall when  no one is working.
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
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From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:01:14
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: "Reference #"
 
And if your job is batch (or you have one amazing keypuncher and machine, 
probably not your burdened 620) jobnumber, date and hhmmss might not be 
enough. Or what may works today, may become obsolete when you upgrade.
 
Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 
 
 
 
 
"Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Yep, I ran the program from two different sessions. Had what needed to be
keyed in ready on both sessions and hit Enter on one and FLEW to the other
session and hit Enter. Looked and the file and about died - EXACT same 
time.
Then I remembered I had entered Job # :-)
 
Chuck
 
 
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From: Buck Calabro Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:28 PM
 
Having job number is a good discriminator. I've been burnt by just
date/time. Even with few users, it's possible to have two transactions
return the same clock time.
--buck

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