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The activity's behavior is subject to the operating environment. For example, it uses or looks for a path delimiter of '\' or '/' according to whether the processing sequence engine is running on a Windows or IBM i server.

INPUT Parameters:

PATHIN: Required

This parameter specifies the folder path - that is the portion of the path left of the file name and extension. It may include a drive name or network location. It may or may not include the terminating folder separator ('\' or '/' according to operating environment). If it does not, the activity will append it.

FILEIN: Optional

This parameter specifies the file name. It may include the file extension, in which case the EXTENSIONIN parameter should not be specified.

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*UNIQUEID generates a file name that is a thirty-two character string consisting entirely of digits 0-9 and characters A-F.  For example: 31EC378D30074175B15212E11ACEAF0C.  (This is equivalent to using the UNIQUEID activity to generate the file name.)

*TIMESTAMP generates a file name using the current (localized) system date and time.  It is generated in ISO format with three decimal positions - except that colons separating hours, minutes and seconds are replaced with spaces to make the name legal on most file systems.  For example: 2015‑10‑23 15 54 17.529.

EXTENSIONIN: Optional

This parameter specifies the file extension, if required. If specified, the activity will append this to the file path. It may or may not include the period (.) separator - if it does not, the activity will add it.

OUTPUT Parameters:

PATHOUT:

Upon completion, this parameter will contain the full file path.