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From: mario on 5 Aug 2008 07:25
is there a function in cobol that i can get my HDD number, or chip
number or some other unique single user identification ?

tks a lot!
From: Kellie Fitton on 5 Aug 2008 11:33
On Aug 5, 4:25 am, mario <mmc_vw1...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> is there a function in cobol that i can get my HDD number, or chip
> number or some other unique single user identification ?
>
> tks a lot!



Hi,

There are no COBOL functions that can get a unique system ID.
But, if you are willing and able to use the Windows Management
Instrumentation classes, then....

You can use the same installation ID of the operating system
to get a globally unique ID for a given machine. The following
WMI class should help you out:

Win32_WindowsProductActivation

Or, you can use the following WMI class to get the manufacturer's
serial number used to identify the physical media:

Win32_PhysicalMedia

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/library/aa394520.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa394346.aspx

Kellie.

From: SkippyPB on 5 Aug 2008 11:51
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:25:33 -0700 (PDT), mario
<mmc_vw1200(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>is there a function in cobol that i can get my HDD number, or chip
>number or some other unique single user identification ?
>
>tks a lot!

Short answer- no.

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From: billious on 5 Aug 2008 14:16

"mario" <mmc_vw1200(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> is there a function in cobol that i can get my HDD number, or chip
> number or some other unique single user identification ?
>
> tks a lot!

Presuming you're going through WINDOWS, would retrieving the value of
USERNAME from the environment suit your purpose, or could you arrange for a
unique environment variable to retrieve?


From: Richard on 5 Aug 2008 15:32
On Aug 5, 11:25 pm, mario <mmc_vw1...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> is there a function in cobol that i can get my HDD number, or chip
> number or some other unique single user identification ?

The MAC address on your NIC should be globally unique. On Linux /sbin/
ifconfig will list the network cards with the hardware address. On
Windows it may be ipconfig and this should give the 6 byte physical
address.

You should be able to use something like:

CALL "SYSTEM" USING "ipconfig >networkdata" & x"00"

and then read the resulting file to extract the required item.

Warning: just because that number is burned onto the network card does
not mean that if/ip config actually gets it from there. There is a
driver between the utility and the card and anything can happen
between, and often does.

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