Thanks to everyone responded. I should have stated my purpose more clearly - all the application needs is a some sort of a reference number, unique within a current week. This is under CICS, so the goal can be easily achieved through the use of a named counter. However, this would come with the overhead of the counter remote access and weekly maintenance.
The reason I was looking at the STCKE TOD is - in POP, under SCKPF instruction, it is documented to be "unique within a multiple-configuration system". [Isn't this a SYSPLEX?] So, here's what I think the application should do: 1) determine the current day-of-week [Sun=0,...,Sat=6]; store as byte#1 2) calculate time since today's midnight [by dividing TOD into 0141 DD76 0000 which is "1 DAY" in clock units, then multiplying by this very value and subtracting the result from the TOD]; this will only occupy 6 bytes in clock units, so store as bytes ##2-7 3) copy the *last* 4 bytes from the STCKE return into bytes ##8-11 This would require only 11 bytes and should be unique within a current week. Comments, please? Thanks! -Victor- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
