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Another year milestone has been reached as I celebrate the 13th birthday of RPGPGM.COM. It has been an incredible personal journey since I have published that first post in 2013. Your feedback and encouragement have made all the effort I have spent worthwhile.
What has happened...
A friend asked me if there was a simple way to calculate the "Julian" date when retrieving dates from a DDL table or DDS file with a date type field.
Before I continue I need to describe the difference between the Julian and the Ordinal dates. While we all call a date in YYYYDDD a "Julian" date, that is not correct. The Julian date is a count of days since January 1...
My presentations this month start today, June 1! At 4:00 PM (CT) I am the guest speaker for COMMON N2i as part of their "N2i Getting Started" series. I will be talking about a few of my favorite RPG Built in Functions, BiFs, and why should be using them. This is a longer a...
Yesterday, Wednesday May 27, I noticed that a new release of ACS, 1.1.9.13, is now available for download.
This is an update to remediate a number of CVE, and no enhancements have been added.
Read more »There are times I need to calculate the dimensions of objects, and to do that I need to use things like x squared, or the square root of y. It all brings back memories of sitting in mathematics lessons back in high school, a very long time ago.
It is simple in RPG, but I want to do it in SQL so that I can calculate the information I need in my SQL View...