CALL FUNCTION 'SYSTEM_UUID_CREATE'...?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

What is the Exact purpose of this FM. CALL FUNCTION 'SYSTEM_UUID_CREATE'

Pls let me know.

Akshitha.

[learnsap]

Hi,

Regards,

Ramesh

[Former Member]

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

[Former Member]

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

[Former Member]

Hi,

I hope the below link will help you.

Thanks,

Khushbu.

[Former Member]

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this function module is obsolete.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.