kranti
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Joined: 10 Oct 2005
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Hi Guys,
I have a small query in the generation of randon number in a cobol program.Requirement is like I have to produce a reference number which is like
01 Ws-Ref-nbr.
03 ws-field1 pic 9(03).
03 ws-field2 pic 9(03).
03 ws-field3 pic 9(10).
03 ws-field4 pic 9(02).
03 ws-field5 pic 9(05).
like this i have some reference number. This number i want to have randomly for output records which is of sequential file.In This WS-FIELD2
I am using the todays date which is coming from the input file in my program. All others are constant values and the last one WS-FIELD5 is of ascending order.So I am getting all the reference numbers which are satisfying the criteria.
Here the problem I am facing is, this program will run once in a day.
In some cases this may run more than once as per the neccesity.So when we run this program first time we are getting the refernce numbers perfectly.But when we run the second time also we are getting the same reference numbers.Here I want to have the reference number randomly means should not have the same refernce number even when we run the program more than once in a day.Is there anu possibility to know some random value which will change some time to time or else which meets the above criteria???
Could you anybody please provide the solution
Thanks In advance,
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