Maybe put Year in DSN, member name would include Month 1-9,A,B,C, Day 01-31, Time 0000-2359, or Day of Year 001-366, Time 0000-2359.
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Pedro Vera <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Is there something I could do to prevent this from happening? > > I think JES2 can be customized to use seven digit numbers for the job number. > On my site, the jobs numbers look like J1234567. That is, you cannot > prevent the collision in job numbers, but you can lessen the frequency. > > If I were doing this exercise, I would replace the first character with an > alphabetic sequence value. Instead of saving the job as member J1234567, > save it as A1234567. When there is a collision, use a member name of > B1234567, etc... Or perhaps do not worry about the member name, but archive > the entire data set when the numeric sequence number rolls over. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
