What you want is a queue of waiting worker bees. Have a look for my THROTTLE REXX, which does exactly that.
On 5 January 2011 02:35, Bob Cronin <bob.cro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks I will try that. > -- > bc > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Bob Cronin <bob.cro...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Since you're sorting anyway, you could use the random stage to extend > > your sort key with a random number and then take the first one from > > the run. > > > > | Rob > > >
