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Just another day working on RDi 9.6. #ibm #rpgle
A chat message exchange between two people. The first message is a screen capture of several lines of code in the IBM code editor RDi - two lines are flagged as errors that are actually valid code. The second message is a gif of Ron Swanson from Parks & Rec with the caption "I know more than you". This is because the RDi code editor has not been updated sufficiently to recognize the keywords being used in the code sample so it doesn't know that this is valid code. It might know that this was valid code if we were using the more modern release of the editor, but then we'd have to move to subscription licensing instead of permanent licensing for the product, and subscription licensing is exploitative and anti-consumer.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The following is a real interaction I just had with support at my IBM i cloud host provider:

Me: SEU is throwing a licensing error. Please fix.
Them: What is SEU?
Them: I've applied the OS keys again. Is this a third-party app?

The confidence I feel is... miniscule.
July 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM