JCL – Kevin's coding blog https://kevindurant.be Improving my programming skills step by step. You're invited! Sun, 26 Apr 2020 11:09:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.14 https://kevindurant.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-faviconround-32x32.png JCL – Kevin's coding blog https://kevindurant.be 32 32 IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #15 https://kevindurant.be/2019/12/25/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-15/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-15 https://kevindurant.be/2019/12/25/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-15/#comments Wed, 25 Dec 2019 22:25:18 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1462 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #15 →]]> Hello Hello Hello Today I’m doing the very last challenge of the IBM Master the Mainframe 2019 contest. It has been a long 4 months and we’ve finally reached the finish line.Now let’s take some time to finish this exercise. Originally I wrote “exercise” wrong, but then I Googled it and corrected it. JUST. FOR. YOU. Isn’t that lovely? (heart emoji thing) Also, the WordPress spelling corrector...

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/11/16/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-09/feed/ 29 IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #08 https://kevindurant.be/2019/11/01/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-08/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-08 https://kevindurant.be/2019/11/01/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-08/#comments Fri, 01 Nov 2019 22:57:22 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1342 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #08 →]]> Stop! Java time! Get it? The reference to Java and U can’t touch this by MC Hammer? No? Schnitzel. Let’s get on with challenge #08 and fix a Java connection problem! IBM Master the Mainframe Part Three – Challenge #08 Like most of the challenges we need to acquire some data first! Let’s get started by entering the primary command =6 from the ISPF Primary Option Menu, this boots us to the command...

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/11/01/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-08/feed/ 22 IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #05 https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/28/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-05/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-05 https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/28/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-05/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:00:10 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1299 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #05 →]]> Java! 3 billion devices their best friend! Java is one of the biggest programming languages out there and now we have the chance to work with it on a mainframe. Note: there might be some encoding issues if you copy and paste the copy commands from my blog into the mainframe. It’s best you copy the paths from the mybluemix website. My quotes are saved differently somehow (angry emoji).

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/28/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-05/feed/ 19 IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #01 https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/06/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-01/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-01 https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/06/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-01/#comments Sun, 06 Oct 2019 15:48:24 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1234 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Three – Challenge #01 →]]> Yatta! Let’s begin solving part three its challenges. But first, I’ll give you a heads-up on what I’m going to do. Last year I wasn’t allowed to release the answers to part three. I asked the new manager (Misty Decker) about any rules regarding blogs but I have yet to get a reply. So, I’ll just give clear instructions on the easy challenges and no answers to the harder challenges. If there’s...

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/06/ibm-mtm-2019-part-three-challenge-01/feed/ 7 IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #15 https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/05/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-15/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-15 https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/05/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-15/#comments Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:09:09 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1207 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #15 →]]> Bonjour! This is probably the hardest part 2 challenge. That’s probably why it’s the last one. Ahh, what am I saying? Shouldn’t we get to work? I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails and contact form submissions for this post so I’ll try my best to make this blogpost as clear as possible. Maybe something less interesting, but I’ve sped up my blog by removing some sharing buttons and other useless...

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/10/05/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-15/feed/ 17 IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #13 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/26/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-13/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-13 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/26/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-13/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:49:51 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1140 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #13 →]]> Challenge the 13th, spooky. Now now, don’t be scared. I’m here to help. Let’s learn a thing or two about the system utilities z/OS has to offer. Besides that, let’s also fix some JCL syntax errors our intern Kevin has made. It’s been 10 days! Sorry for that, IRL and work has left me with no spare energy to do all this. I have noticed I gained a lot of e-mail subscribers and I would like to give...

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/26/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-13/feed/ 25 IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #10 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/13/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-10 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/13/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-10/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:53:17 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1113 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #10 →]]> More UNIX and more JCL? I can feel my beard growing already! Let’s grow a LINUX beard together! IBM Master the Mainframe 2019 Part Two – Challenge #10 From the ISPF primary option menu we need to issue the primary command tso submit ‘zos.public.jcl(unixsh)’. Now via SDSF we need to check the job output, we can get to that using the sd primary command and then filter using prefix ; owner Z50087; st.

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/13/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-10/feed/ 11 IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #07 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/10/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-07/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-07 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/10/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-07/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:03:51 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1068 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #07 →]]> Hi there! Today we’re going to learn a bit more about data sets. This will be a somewhat longer challenge, but hey, what has to be done has to be done. That’s a fully correct English sentence. IBM Master the Mainframe Part Two – Challenge #07 Again, for starters we need to allocate a new data set using a series of commands. I will list them here for quick completion. tso submit ‘zos.public.

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]]> https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/10/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-07/feed/ 6 IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #06 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/10/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-06/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-06 https://kevindurant.be/2019/09/10/ibm-mtm-2019-part-two-challenge-06/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:39:54 +0000 https://kevindurant.be/?p=1058 Continue reading IBM MTM 2019: Part Two – Challenge #06 →]]> Hello and welcome to a new episode of fixing things! Today we’re going to fix some bad JCL our intern Kevin has made last week. Oh Kevin, such a nice guy but sometimes works way too fast. It’s now up to us, senior developers, to fix his mistakes. IBM Master the Mainframe Part Two – Challenge #06 First we navigate to our Z#####.JCL, we can do so by using the primary command dslist jcl...

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