Month: October 2021

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Planning A Modernization Project? Read This First  IT Jungle

We Have The Whole World Of Cloud In Our Hands  IT Jungle

If you have modernized legacy applications or created new applications from scratch, you very likely have application programming interfaces, or APIs, exposed to enable applications to share data. To some ways of thinking, this sharing of data between chunks of code in a formalized way – within the organization or across code bases developed internally or created by third parties and residing on premises, in the cloud somewhere, or both – is what actually constitutes an application. The integrated whole is what makes everything work.

By their very nature, therefore, APIs are a boon to companies looking to weave together …

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Constant folding is a compiler-optimization technique, whereby the compiler replaces calculations that involve constants with the result values when possible. Constant folding is common in modern compilers, and according to the RPG reference, the RPG compiler uses this technique. (See the documentation of the %div and %rem functions, for example.)

But you and I don’t write compilers. We write business applications. Why then should we care about constant folding? That’s a question worth pondering.

Consider how I used to have to write RPG in the Dark Ages.

C MOVE CUSTNR CUSTSV 50

Here I’m copying the customer account number to …

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