A Bevy of BIFs: Getting a Date is Easy with %Date
by Susan Gantner

Almost every kind of business application uses dates. Hopefully you're taking full advantage of all the RPG support for date data types to simplify your logic. If you're using more than one line of code to calculate the number of days, months or years between two dates, or to add a number of days, months, or years to a date, you're working way too hard! READ MORE >

Mismatched Record Name Formats? No Problem!
Hey, Ted:

We have two sets of order files--one current and one history--with the same fields but different record format names. (Who knows why?) The two inquiry programs use the same display file; and yours truly forgets to make changes in the history program when he changes the current program. I get the big brain idea to use the same program for both, but how do I override the history file to the current file when the record format names do not match? READ MORE >