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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We need to have a highly accurate (high precision) date/time stamp solely for the purpose of sequentially retrieving records in an RBD database. A value will never be used in this field to access any given record(s) in this table. As I say, the only reason for this field is to force a unique key and to facilitate their sequential retrieval.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are running on a Vax running OpenVMS, V6.2, with PowerHouse version 7.10.E6. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have a bit of a discussion as to whether VMSTIMESTAMP would be a viable option to populate this field. Will VMSTIMESTAMP give us a reliable value for this purpose? If it will not, does anyone have a better alternative?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<DIV>pencarver</DIV>
<DIV>(John Stires)</DIV>