UNIQUEID

LANSA Composer

UNIQUEID

This activity generates a unique (*) identifier.  The identifier might be suitable for use as a database surrogate key, file name, message identifier or for many other purposes.

The generated identifier is a thirty-two character string consisting entirely of digits 0-9 and characters A-F.  For example: 31EC378D30074175B15212E11ACEAF0C.

(*) For almost all purposes and circumstances the generated identifier will be unique in space and in time - that is across all other instances generated by this activity at any time on the same or different servers.

INPUT Parameters:

None.

OUTPUT Parameters:

UNIQUEID :

Upon completion, this parameter contains the generated 32 character identifier.