Creation of Sequential file with timestamp appended

Sreenivasulu · Post by **Sreenivasulu** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:15 am

Hi All,

I want to create a sequential file whose name would be dynamic. For example i want to create a sequential file which would have the current system timestamp appended to the file. Anyone having any ideas on this

roy · Post by **roy** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:40 am

Hi,
use parameters in the file's path tab.
i.e. #DIR_PARAM#/file_name#TMSP_PARAM#.dat
or if you prefer get the parameter to hold the full path or file name
yes this means you need to have it in a paramter prior to running that job.

IHTH,

raju_chvr · Post by **raju_chvr** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:44 am

<FILENAME>_#DSJobStartDate#

this should also workj if you are not creating the file twice on the same day ....

jreddy · Post by **jreddy** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:55 pm

There is a DSJobStartTimeStamp macro too available if you need to capture timestamp and still have no problem running it more than once a day.

raju_chvr · Post by **raju_chvr** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:06 pm

I tried it in Windows environment. It aborted as it can't create a file with with ':' in it and the 'DSJobStartTimeStamp' comes back with a value which has ':' in it ..

ogmios · Post by **ogmios** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:48 pm

raju_chvr wrote:I tried it in Windows environment. It aborted as it can't create a file with with ':' in it and the 'DSJobStartTimeStamp' comes back with a value which has ':' in it ..

Change the ':' to '_' with ereplace afterwards. Put the calculation of the date/time in a controlling job passing the value as a parameter.

Ogmios