James-

>str(strCountSeq) without any luck. any suggestions. thanks

What was wrong when you tried STR()? What did STR(strCountSeq) return? It's the equivelent of TRANSFORM (and faster, if you're doing this in a loop).

The following worked fine for me:

PUBLIC strSeq AS STRING, ;
  intCount AS INTEGER, ;
  strCountSeq AS STRING

intCount = 0

strCountSeq = LTRIM( STR( intCount ) )

strSeq = SUBSTR(DTOC(DATE()),1,2) + SUBSTR(DTOC(DATE()),4,2) + SUBSTR(TIME(1),10,2) + strCountSeq

?strSeq && 0830600 for example.