How to keep a generic process unique?

Posted by Steve Van Opstal on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Steve Van Opstal
Published on 2012-11-15T14:55:39Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 17:22 UTC
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I'm currently working on a project that makes connection between different banks which send us information on which that project replies. A part of that project configures the different protocols that are used (not every bank uses the same protocol), this runs on a separate server. These processes all have unique id's which are stored in a database.

But to save time and money on configurations and new processes, we want to make a generic protocol that banks can use. Because of PCI requirements we have to make a separate process for every bank we connect to.

But the generic process has only 1 unique identifier and therefor we cannot keep them apart. Giving every copy of that process a different identifier is as I see it impossible because they run entirely separate.

So how do I keep my generic process unique?

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