RE: RANDOM function with COBOL400?

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly,

AFAIK you must call the CEERAN0 API to get random numbers
in ILE/Cobol (at least up thru V4R5).

Try this link at News400:

http://www.as400network.com/Forums/Search_Results.cfm?CFApp=19#Message57169

if this doesn't work, look at http://www.as400network.com/as400forums/
and access the Cobol forum, then search for "random".  If your still
having a problem, let me know and I'll send it to you.

Terry


-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Cookson [mailto:kc62301@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:10 AM
To: COBOL400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RANDOM function with COBOL400?


Newbie question.

I have to generate a list of randomly selected
employees for drug testing.  I was thinking of using
the RANDOM function.  Unless someone has a better
idea! :)

I can't seem to get the RANDOM function coded
properly.  When I code the following line using SEU:

     COMPUTE X = FUNCTION RANDOM.

SEU highlights the line and gives the following error
message:

"ANS COBOL reserved word FUNCTION will be accepted as
a nonreserved word. A period is required before
RANDOM. Line rejected."

I tried coding the variation:

    COMPUTE X = RANDOM.

and got the error message:

"RANDOM not arithmetic expression. Line rejected."

What am I missing here?  How do I use the RANDOM
function in COBOL400?

Thanks in advance.
Kelly


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