Comments on: IBM MTM 2018: Part Three – Challenge #06

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Fri, 10 May 2019 20:41:01 +0000

Key(8,0) means that the key has a total length of 8 and starts at offset 0, which in this case 0 means the first position within the record. For more information check out dbzTHEdinosauer's answer on ibmmainframes.com. If offset would be 1, then it would start from the second position. If it was 7, then it would start from the eighth position. From the beginning of the file, how much do I skip? What's the offset? That's my two cents. Sorry for the late reply, been busy :) Kind regards -Kevin

By: Carlos M.

Carlos M. — Thu, 09 May 2019 13:40:51 +0000

I had the same values, but I don´t understand why the offset is zero (0) in Key(8,0) is it not supposed to be the difference between the begin column and the end column of the record layout?

By: zaza6690

zaza6690 — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:50:40 +0000

ksds is the only dependencies required here?

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:47:08 +0000

Hi, Kevin!
Oh, thank you so much. you helped me a lot!:)

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:54:46 +0000

Hi Anna

Please change the VOLUME from VOLUME(VPWRKD) to VOLUME(VPWRKC) on line 000080.

Does that work?

Kind regards
-Kevin

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:36:37 +0000

I tried different solutions, but I always get the error I wrote about above.

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:10:45 +0000

Hi Anna

I can’t access the system right now but I think that looks right. If you’re not getting the results you want, then you could try KEY(8,0) instead of KEYS. Don’t forget the commas.

Kind regards
-Kevin

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:40:52 +0000

Tell me please did i have correctly replaced values: INDEXED RECSZ(170 170) KEYS(8 0) ?

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:34:35 +0000

Hi Anna

This is a common issue throughout the challenge, it just means the disk is full. You might want to ask an IBM employee for help via mail or on their dedicated Slack channel (fastest medium). They need to free up some space.

You can contact them on the following urls: https://masterthemainframe18.slack.com/, mail to zskills@us.ibm.com or https://www.facebook.com/MasterTheMainframe.

I personally use their Slack to solve issues like this.

Kind regards
-Kevin

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:30:46 +0000

Hey!
Can you help me with this challenge? l have next error: UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE ON USER VOLUME