Bill, and Clif and Jerry,
Yes. Basically, you're correct.
We do use the BANNER UNIQUE and the BANNER NEXT options for our Unidata and
Universe installations, respectively.
One of our two examples, UV^UVNT.SPOOLER^1^N^1_9999, shows a label that
contains the Login ID, Account Name,Queue No., Print Options (Null in this
case), No. of Copies and the Print Job No. assigned by Universe appended to
the end.
We check each record in the &HOLD&/_HOLD_ file periodically (default = 2
sec.) and, if it has been written completely to the file, add print status
codes and a time-date stamp in seconds to the item id, copy it to our own
hold file and delete it from the &HOLD&/_HOLD_ file.
This assures that no subsequent record overwrites an existing record with
the same print job number that may still be on hold in our hold file.
But, it doesn't preclude the possibility of having two records on hold with
the same print job number, and that can be confusing to the user who
identifies a particular print job by that print job number.
Since we do control the item id of each print job in our hold file, we could
actually intercept the original print job number and re-scale it to any
number of digits we wish when we rebuild the item id.
One of our customers has already done that and it works fine for them.
It's on our enhancement list for the next customer who asks for it.
I think that Clif could do this with his spooler product also.
Thank you all for your suggestions.
Best wishes always,
Dave
Dave Taylor
Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
Authorized IBM Business Partner
49 Aspen Way
Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
(O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275)
(F) 310-377-3550
(C) 310-561-5200
www.sysmarkinfo.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:28 PM
Subject: RE: [U2] Unidata to Universe port
Dave:
I'm guessing the crux of the issue is ensuring completely unique numbers
for spooler
entries. In UD we use "BANNER UNIQUE" to append the user name to a
date/time stamp
and add ".txt" to the end (you know how stupid other software can be). We
pause for
a second to make sure no two entries have the same number. According to
the UniVerse
documentation:
<snip>
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