07-31-2008 7:34 AM
Hi All,
What is the Exact purpose of this FM. CALL FUNCTION 'SYSTEM_UUID_CREATE'
Pls let me know.
Akshitha.
07-31-2008 7:40 AM
07-31-2008 7:42 AM
Hi akshita,
'SYSTEM_UUID_CREATE' is used to creat GUID.
A GUID represents a Unique identifier - means you cannot generate the same GUID
more than once. A GUID has a very low (...practically impossible) probability of being duplicated
GUIDs have a variety of applications. You can use a GUID as a primary
key in your database table or in a several other scenarios. A good
example would be, if you have a distributed application where data is
generated and stored in various locations and you want to merge all those
data at some intervals of time, you may use GUID as the primary key.
GUIDs can be generated in a number of ways; most often a hash of
several things that might be unique at any given point in time like the IP
address plus the clock date/time etc are used to generate Unique Ids.
Each system may have slightly different algorithm to generate the Unique
Id.
Regards
Divya
07-31-2008 7:43 AM
Hi Akshitha,
CALL FUNCTION 'SYSTEM_UUID_CREATE' is used to generate GUID's( Globally Unique Identifier)
Check these links regarding GUIDs:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b1/82309fd26611d4b2e90050dadfb92b/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/5e/a7914298c3c21ce10000000a1550b0/content.htm
Regards,
Chandra Sekhar
07-31-2008 7:55 AM
07-31-2008 8:03 AM
HI,
'SYSTEM_UUID_CREATE' is used to creat GUID.
A GUID represents a Unique identifier - means you cannot generate the same GUID
more than once.
this function module is obsolete. use guid_create instead of this one.
rgds,
bharat.