Thanks but to use that approach I'd have to do some significant redesign and that's simply not possible at this late date. -- bc
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:48 PM, John P. Hartmann <jphartm...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
