RE: Generating UUID in RPG

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A sprinkle of Python and CL can help to gen what you need:

#!/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/python3
import uuid
print(str(uuid.uuid4())

I'm sure something similar with PHP, Node or Java is also possible.

Simply output the new UUID to stdout for your app to consume.

Here's an example CL call of the script using the open source QSHEXEC CL command:
QSHONI/QSHEXEC CMDLINE('/ python/pygenuuid.py')  

After execution the resulting UUID exists in outfile: QTEMP/STDOUTQSH as the only record. You can consume this from RPG or CL.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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message: 1
date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:21:41 +0100
from: issemDan <residentialsleeper@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Generating UUID in RPG

I see, so it seems there is no way to generate a type 4 on my current operating system as this was introduced in 7.3

If I called the type 1 uuid 4 times and then concatenated the first 8 random chars together perhaps that would give me a working 'random' uuid



On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 at 15:15, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Working as designed...
>
> The UUID returned is a type 1, not a type 4.
>
> Charles
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 8:08 AM issemDan 
> <residentialsleeper@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I'm getting a UUID now but after testing several times in a 
> > row (calling via command line from fresh each time) I've noticed 
> > only the
> first
> > 8 characters are random whilst the rest are the same for each call 
> > and
> not
> > randomized