Deep thought: Computers and AI will never be able to replace human programmers until they learn to laugh at the boss’s bad jokes. You Should Use Environment Variables I’ve noticed that not too many traditional IBM i programmers are using environment variables. I’ve been wondering why because I find them to be very useful. I’ve…
Joke of the month: Crow: Excuse me, ma’am, would you like to donate to my charity? Woman: Maybe, what is it called? Crow: CAW! CAW! CAW! CAW! Woman: I don’t understand! Crow: It’s four good caws! Spring 2023 Enhancements to SELECT/WHEN The RPG SELECT/WHEN statements have been enhanced to allow for a single condition with…
Joke of the Month A woman walks into a bar with a lizard on her shoulder, has a seat at a table and waits patiently for the waiter. When the waiter arrives, he says “Welcome! What an interesting pet! What is his name?” The woman responds “Tiny.” The waiter, surprised, says “That’s an unusual name…
Are you taking advantage of the built-in functions offered in the CL programming language? I was helping a colleague write a CL program recently, and I discovered that he didn’t know about all of the amazing functions IBM has added to CL over the past few years!