>>What I was looking for is a randomizer that will arbitrarily add dates in
my records as the BUILD runs. Is that possible?
Bill Ashton,
Unfortunately DFSORT does not have any random function available. I would
suggest have the dates generated from 0001-01-01 to 9999-12-31 and now use
this an input to a program that would pick the randon records from this
file. Note that your random number should be between 1 and 3,652,058.
>>Will it generate Valid Leap Day 02-29 in 2012, 2016, 2020, etc?
Mike Schwab,
As author of the Date conversion/arithmetic functions I would say, it does
produce valid dates for leap years following the leap year rules
Will it generate invalid dates , 02-29, 02-30, 02-31, 04-31, 06-31, 09-31,
11-31, etc?
No.
>>Mr. Natural sez, Use the right tool for the job.
Gil,
Aren't you limited to just 100,000 records ? The number of days between
0001-01-01 and 9999-12-31 is 3,652,058. How does above REXX generate
beyond 100,000?
If your run your exec as with the following
TSO GENYDATA 100001 1753 9999
Results in
14 +++ say date( 'Standard', First + random( 0, Span ), 'Base' )
IRX0040I Error running GENYDATA, line 14: Incorrect call to routine
Lets say you have managed to get a random number between 1 and 3,652,058 by
tweaking the formula for random number, how are you planning to avoid
duplicates?
Kolusu
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