Suggestions on File Naming

Hi Experts,
Will you please propose solution for File naming convention. When XI is generation a file. We can follow two approaches:
1. Appending time stamp to file name
2. Use of number range created on ABAP stack of XI.
Which is better?
Regards,
Kavita

Hi Kavitha,
<i>Which is better?</i>
>>>It depends on the business requirement.
But i prefer timestamp, as it is provided by XI itself.
if you go with Number Range, then you need to do Jco connection with Application System or Integartion Server, where you maintained the number range.
But it is advisable in such cases where, you need to have some lookups so that you can generate new sequence number for each file generated by XI. So next time you will get new number , because of the numbe range object maintained.
Totally it depends on the requirements.
Regards,
Moorthy

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