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"What's the problem with writing a record into a file indexed (unique) by timestamp? Reading the first record in descending order gives you the latest entry. Inserts don't lock a file and won't block unless the file is locked by some other process (backup?, but why would you back it up?, copy while active if you need to). You can write to a central table from any system with DRDA. Save the timestamp in your job then write to the file when the job is finished. That's the way I always record &amp;quot;last time through..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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