Date and time in spool file name

Question

Hi,
can anyone show me how i can write the code below so that the spool file will automatically take the system time and date?
thanks again.
set term off;
set echo off;
set heading off;
set linesize 1500;
set pagesize 9999;
set feedback off;
spool /home/oracle/ATM_Upload/files/CRD000119MMDDYYHHMISS.DAT;
SELECT rec_ind||source_type||bbdsa_code||seq_num||dt_ti_ext||ver_num
as atm_header
FROM atm_dc_hd;
spool off;

Answer 1

Hi,
I do something similar to this in a file called ed.sql which I use in SQL*Plus to give me a history of SQL*Plus buffers in separate files which follow the naming convention $DATABASE_$SID_$TIMESTAMP.sql. I use it from SQL*Plus when editing, rather than typing "ed" I type "@ed" and it does the naming for me:
-- Turn off terminal output
set termout off
-- Save current buffer to a temp file
save tmp.txt replace
-- Set editfile name to $DATABASE_$SID_$TIMESTAMP.sql
column fname new_value fname
column sid new_value sid
select trim(sid) sid
from v$mystat
where rownum = 1;
select global_name||'_&sid'||'_'||to_char(sysdate, 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')||'.sql' fname
from global_name;
set editfile '&fname'
-- Retrieve our initial buffer
get tmp.txt
-- Turn terminal output back on
set termout on
-- Fire up the editor
edYou could probably adapt this in the following way for your needs:
column fname new_value fname
select 'CRD000119'||to_char(sysdate, 'MMDDYYHH24MISS')||'.dat' fname
from dual;
spool '&fname'I don't know how you get the 'CRD' part of the filename but you may be able to generate that too using the above as a guide.
cheers,
Anthony