Comments on: IBM MTM 2018: Part Three – Challenge #01-02

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:51:37 +0000

Hi Divyanshu, I got it in two days. But I think I was lucky, expect it to be within a week. IBM is very busy grading the part three participants.
– Kevin

By: Divyanshu

Divyanshu — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:19:46 +0000

After how many days after completing part-2 you got the mail for badge?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:17:01 +0000

If you meant ALLDUPS, I did that as well yet no output for P3.Output(#02).

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:07:45 +0000

Hi Jon, your code almost exactly matches mine except for one difference. You have forgotten about “Modify ICETOOL select control statement directive LASTDUP with a directive writing a report the business analysts need to visually compare the duplicate records with each other“. You need to change your line 000009 LASTDUP to something that selects all duplicates. Documentation can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.iceg200/icesele.htm
– Kevin

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:33:06 +0000

Thanks for your response. I tried both with and w/out space to no avail. Pls. see below. I look forward to your response. ****** ***************************** Top of Data ************************* ==MSG> -Warning- The UNDO command is not available until you change ==MSG> your edit profile using the command RECOVERY ON. 000001 //SORT002 JOB 1,NOTIFY=&SYSUID 000002 //SETVAR SET MASTER=ZOS.PUBLIC.BBRI.CLIENTS 000003 //EXTRACT EXEC PGM=ICETOOL 000004 //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* 000005 //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* 000006 //MASTER DD DSN=&MASTER,DISP=SHR 000007 //TOOLIN DD * 000008 SELECT FROM(MASTER) TO(DUP) DISCARD(NODUP) - 000009 ON(1, 8, CH) LASTDUP USING(CTL1) 000010 //CTL1CNTL DD * 000011 OUTFIL FNAMES=DUP 000012 OUTFIL FNAMES=NODUP 000013 //DUP DD DSN=&SYSUID..P3.OUTPUT(#02),DISP=SHR 000014 //NODUP DD SYSOUT=* ****** **************************** Bottom of Data ***********************

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 07:40:16 +0000

Hi Jon, it’s hard to say without seeing your JCL. Did you enter 1,8,CH without a space between the comma and ‘ch’? JCL is very strict. Would love to check my code, but my logon suddenly stopped working. I’ll get back to you 🙂
– Kevin

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 05:06:03 +0000

Do you know why I am not getting P3.OUTPUT(#02). I have substituted pmf with 1,8, CH and got a couple of output that didn’t include SORTOUT/SYSOUT. Please advise.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 18:35:11 +0000

Thank you.

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 07:24:33 +0000

Hi Taiwo, did you check if your P2.OUTPUT(#1) is correct? This challenge uses data from an earlier challenge you had to complete.
– Kevin

By: Taiwo Ajani

Taiwo Ajani — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 06:19:33 +0000

Hi Kevin.

Thanks for doing this. This is about Part 3 Challenge 01. I tried to copy as instructed, but it just copied same information in line one but not a list/data on Country. I dont know what I’m doing wrong after 4 hours.

Thanks.