Billy, Why not use the PRNO/PPNO hardware instruction on your CPU if it is new enough?
Just write a small assembler program. Tom Harper Phoenix Software International Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2025, at 10:29 AM, Billy Ashton > <00000665bda14df5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Hey all! It's been a while since I bothered y'all, and I hate to do this > again, but my manager wants me to do some research on using the Crypto > feature to generate "true" random numbers - CSNBRNGL. > > He thinks this will help us get better, less predictable results for the > places we need to use random numbers, and he wants me to see how easy it is > to use and how many resources it might use. > > As this is slated for possible COBOL use, has anyone used it in a COBOL > program, and would you share your data definition and code? I have spent > hours asking Dr. Google, and have gotten very little info about it. I found > the module in our linklist, so that part it easy, but I just can't figure out > how to call it. > > I appreciate your help here! > Billy > > Thank you and best regards, > Billy Ashton > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
