fte:uuid Ant task

Generates a pseudo-random unique identifier and assigns it to a given IBM® WebSphere MQ File Transfer Editionproperty. For example, we can use this identifier to generate job names for other file transfer operations.


Attributes

    length
    Required. The numeric length of UUID to generate. This length value does not include the length of any prefix, specified by the prefix parameter.

    property
    Required. The name of the property to assign the generated UUID to.

    prefix
    Optional. A prefix to add to the generated UUID. This prefix is not counted as part of the length of the UUID, as specified by the length parameter.


Example

This example defines a UUID that starts with the letters ABC followed by 16 pseudo-random hex characters. The UUID is assigned to a property named uuid.property. 
<fte:uuid length="16" property="uuid.property" prefix="ABC"/>