RE: Generating session keys in RPG using HASH values

I am in the same boat as Bryan, I wouldn't want to take the chance of having
the same session id come up.  I would just create a control file and
increment a number with an RPG ILE interface.

Do you need it to be alpha-numeric?

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Yates [mailto:byates@co.collin.tx.us]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:43 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Generating session keys in RPG using HASH values


If you want something guarantied to be unique everytime, why not use the
UUID api's which will give you a 128bit unique hex value?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Skvarenina [mailto:mskvarenina@usa.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:00 AM
To: WEB400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] Generating session keys in RPG using HASH values


I need to generate a pseudo-random character string to be used as a session
key in my browser applications.  Has anyone used a hashing method in RPG to
generate a pseudo-random number and if so, could you please post it.
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