Comments on: IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #15

By: Mig

Mig — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:41:11 +0000

Does anyone knows when IBM reveals the people who complete part 3?

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 09:09:29 +0000

Hi FKFHWS

Thanks!

I have to admit, I did very little research for this solution as I wanted to have at least some kind of blog out before the student contest ends. I might expand later after a break.

I believe they publish the results at the end of January or early February.

Kind regards
– Kevin

By: FKFHWS

FKFHWS — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:34:31 +0000

Hello Kev,
nice solution you had for finding the user logons. I solved that by using the JES message $HASP373 which is produced every time a JES process starts. The ICH700001 seemed a bit strange to me, since it did not always appear in the syslog when users logged in. I sorted out the TSO job names by querying only for jobs where the jobname equals a username. Do you know when they plan to publish the results?
Fyi this was my REXX query…
if substr(MessageArea,1,10+msglen)=”$HASP373 “||username||” ” then

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 11:11:45 +0000

Hi Georges!

You wrote all the extra reports? That’s impressive! I might add more when I find the time 🙂 We have until the 9th of september 2020 afterall 🙂

Happy new year!
– Kevin

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 11:10:50 +0000

Hi Regina

Thanks for sharing and writing a kind note! I’m very happy to hear my blogs have helped you 🙂

Kind regards,
– Kevin

By: Georges

Georges — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 03:57:48 +0000

Hi Kevin,
You ended this campaign successfully!
Congratulations again!
Nice solution you made in ch15. Mine is with the 7 reports with as, da, ssi, etc. The first was tricky the rest follows …. 🙂
Happy New Year 2020!!!
We will keep in contact
Georges

By: Regina Bass

Regina Bass — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:47:23 +0000

Hi Kevin! I heard about MTM just last week and your blogs have been incredibly helpful in navigating through the challenges (since time was ticking and I had no time being stuck haha). I wouldn’t have even bothered to attempt Part 3 if it weren’t for all of these and now I’m glad I did do them because I feel like I’ve learned so much! I know these blogs must have taken forever to write but I just hope you know how much I appreciated them!

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:03:33 +0000

Hi Some2

I also have very limited time 😉

I would advise you to look into the other members and see if you can use some code. I don’t know in which language you’re also trying to do this.

You could take a peak at https://github.com/KevinJDurant/master_the_mainframe_2018_final_challenge#samp4rexx and see how this Rexx says things and then writes it to ch15.output(“mbr”). This is code from last year.

Unfortunately due to it being a very busy period right now I won’t be able to help you out much more.

Kind regards,
– Kevin

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 11:55:32 +0000

Hi Dash

I’m doing well, very busy though 😉 It is hard for me to help you without seeing all your code. But I can help you work out the concept.

Essentially you loop over the data and “stream” print it to a data set. You should just break the loop after the entry you want.

I hope this makes sense.

Kind regards,
– Kevin

By: kevindurant

kevindurant — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 11:51:58 +0000

Hi Alex

Thanks for the kind words! I’m planning on making a Mainframe Cookbook series next. Seperate blogposts about how to do something inside the mainframe, from simple things like “How to enter new lines inside SDSF editor” to “How to write data to a data set using REXX”.

Kind regards,
– Kevin