Exactly!
James.
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From: "Schuh, Richard" <rsc...@visa.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:28 PM
To: <CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] Pick a record at random?
What difference does it make? You gain nothing by choosing a random worker
except for complicating the process.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-----Original Message-----
From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List
[mailto:cms-pipeli...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Cronin
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 2:07 PM
To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Pick a record at random?
I need to decide which of a set of worker userids to give a
spool file to. I want to pick the one with the fewest total
spool files. If there are multiple users with the same
(lowest) number, I want to choose one at random (for load
balancing purposes). I already have code that does the
queries and outputs records with the total number of spool
files right justified in columns 1-10 (padded with leading
zeros) and the name of the userid in columns 12-19. For example:
0000000002 xagentu2
0000000157 xagentu3
0000000010 xagentu8
0000000002 xagentu5
0000000007 xagentu4
0000009996 xagentu6
0000009999 xagentu7
0000000002 xagentu
From those I need to (somehow) choose those with the fewest:
0000000002 xagentu2
0000000002 xagentu5
0000000002 xagentu
From those, I want to pick one at random and then give the
new spool file to the named user (i.e. I want the output of
the pipe to be the userid to use).
I could load them into a stem and use the Rexx Random()
function, I suppose, but was curious if there's a PipeThink
way to do it.
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bc
