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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 15, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

New TurboIntegrator/Rule function to obtain an Unique ID

In our on-premise application, a tremendous number of TI processes are executed simultaneously, requiring to be identified uniquely in the system in order to avoir locks.

Historically we used a combination of 'RAND()' and other information to generate such Id, but we encountered 2 or 3 times in the past years contexts where 2 simultaneous processes were having the same identifier.

As a result, we created a Java TI Extension to generate such IDs, with various flavors:

GetUUID()

Returns a string containing an identifier that is guaranteed to be unique, similar to "56e057d7-e1fd-4efe-947b-bafb612616dd"

 
GetTimeStamp()

Returns a string containing the number of milliseconds since the UNIX Epoch (January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC). For exemple 1536760298726.

It's not a unique Id, but it can be useful sometimes

Now we are planning to move our application to the cloud, but Java extensions are not allowed.
In order to allow this move, we need a new TI function that generates a certified unique ID

Needed by Date Aug 16, 2021
  • Admin
    Stuart King
    Reply
    |     Sep 8, 2021

    Status updated to Not under consideration. Consider the use of Python (on premise) to generate a unique ID and pass the unique ID to a TI process as parameter using TM1Py. Another option may be to use an automation tool such as Cognos Command Center to call a script or program that generates a UUID and passes that UUID to a TI process.

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