Why am I doing the challenges so slow? I heard they update the leaderboards every Friday. I want to have finished part 2 all of its challenges by next Friday the 12th of October.  So expect a load of blog posts by then! Don’t worry about all the notification mails though, I’ll merge some challenges … Continue reading IBM MTM 2018: Part Two – Challenge #09 →

Good news, a good day and good weather! Perfect! I know most of the people that read this blog probably have a programming background. This challenge is about bits, bytes, hexadecimal, ASCII and EBCDIC. I assume you know most of them, but what is EBCDIC? z/OS its default encoding is EBCDIC. EBCDIC stands for Extended Binary Coded … Continue reading IBM MTM 2018: Part Two – Challenge #08 →

You, I welcome. Voila, I’ve used the last bit of Yoda in me to write that intro. Wait, don’t tell me… you don’t know who master Yoda is? I’d show you, but I can’t use any copyrighted images. Nor have I a clue when I can use a picture and when I can’t. It seems … Continue reading IBM MTM 2018: Part Two – Challenge #07 →