Re: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a unique IFS directory for temporary use?

["Albert York" <albertyork@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you can access a data area in C than you could just increment a counter.

Albert

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a unique IFS       
> directory for temporary use?
> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:58:28 -0700
>
>
> 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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