Q to Programmers - Trade ID Tags?

["Ivo Karindi" <ivo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am designing a back-office order placement/tracking/book-keeping suite.
Need to come up with a method to assign ID tags to trades.  The ID tag has
to be generated when a potential stop order is generated in TS, but trade is
not yet entered, and has to stay the same (regenerated each bar) until the
trade has been closed out.  The ID tag generated from TS could be something
like Date/Market/System/TradeNumber combination, for example something like
this:

        20011003CL0112MYSYSTEM101

The problem is coming up with the tag as soon as a stop-order is generated,
which is usually *before* a trade is entered in reality.  Also, the tag has
to be logical enough to be used on several separate computers so the
different computers would come up with identical tags given the same data
and system.

Any ideas how to do this in EL?  Any ideas for DLL's?  Any DLL's or EL
functions out there doing this already?

TIA,

Ivo