>>SOURCE FREE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. random-element. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 nums-area VALUE "123456789". 03 nums PIC 9 OCCURS 9 TIMES. 01 random-idx PIC 9 COMP. PROCEDURE DIVISION. COMPUTE random-idx = FUNCTION RANDOM(FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE (9:7)) * 9 + 1 DISPLAY nums (random-idx) . END PROGRAM random-element.