CMS Snapshot Analysis - Information - What is GUID
Purpose
This page provides the following information
- What is GUID
- How to find the GUID
Applicable in CAST Version
| Release | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| 8.3.x | ✅ |
Applicable RDBMS
| RDBMS | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| CSS | ✅ |
Details
What is GUID
GUID : G****lobal Unique Identifier. It is used to identify an object and to ensure its unicity. The object GUID’s are generated during the analysis and are saved in the Knowledge base.
If between two versions of analysis, the GUID of an object has changed, the analyzer sees it as a new object and it creates a new object.
The analyzers for which the GUID is calculated are :
| Technology | GUID | No GUID |
| SAP ABAP | ✅ | |
| Business Objects | ✅ | |
| VB .NET | ✅ | |
| C# | ✅ | |
| C/C++ | ✅ | |
| Mainframe | ✅ | |
| IBM PL-PSM z/OS | ✅ | |
| IBM PL-PSM Universal Database | ✅ | |
| Oracle Forms / Reports | ✅ | |
| Oracle PL/SQL | ✅ | |
| PowerBuilder | ✅ | |
| J2EE Languages and Technologies | ✅ | |
| Web Languages | ✅ | |
| Sybase T-SQL | ✅ | |
| Microsoft T-SQL | ✅ | |
| Microsoft Visual Basic | ✅ | |
| Universal Analyzer (COE) | ✅ | |
| Universal Importer | ✅ | |
| Extension (Using Python and SDK) | ✅ |
How to find the GUID of an object
You can find the GUID of an object by following the below page once you know the object name.
SQL Queries - CAST Knowledge Base - Queries on objects - How to get object GUID
GUID Format per technology
For a given technology, the GUID formalism is the same for all type of objects.
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