Bad Joke of the Month: A friend went Axe Throwing. I asked if she ever tried it blind folded. She replied, “No.” so I said “You don’t know what you’re missing!” %LEFT and %RIGHT Built-in Functions On October 10, IBM announced the latest RPG features. Among the new features were the %LEFT and %RIGHT built-in…
Bad Joke of the Month: Q: Why do programmers prefer dark mode?A: Because light attracts bugs. Environment Variables in Cobol? Why not? After posting last month’s blog post about environment variables, I was asked by a reader if it’s possible to use environment variables in a Cobol program. The answer? Yes, of course! You see,…
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!