POINTER is one of the data types in COBOL. A variable defined as data type POINTER can store the memory address of the other variables used in the program. There are different ways in which we can use POINTER variables in our program to achieve different tasks. One such example is retrieving data from “Linked […]
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SAFe Agilist is a Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) enterprise leadership professional who is part of a Lean-Agile transformation.The course materials are an essential artifact and can be downloaded from the SAFe Agilist Community Platform or can be referred from the website links provided below . These materials can be used to refer back to the
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PSM Certification: Professional Scrum Master ™ I (PSM I) certification is universally accepted as one of the most popular scrum.org certifications. Scrum.org creates and maintains standardized curriculum, context, and depth for all Professional Scrum courses and selects qualified instructors to deliver them. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. Scrum Master focuses
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RAID Analysis is an acronym for Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies. All projects large and small have risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions. Managing them is one of the most time-consuming activities but done well, the effort is paid off by fewer delays and cost over-runs, better-informed stakeholders, more support for the project, and better delivery
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Daily Scrum (Daily Stand Up or DSU) is a reoccurring event to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work. Daily Scrum provides at least one daily opportunity to synchronize work and plan for the day ahead. The Scrum Master ensures that a Daily Scrum
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Sprint Planning meeting is conducted before the start of a sprint. The purpose of this meeting is to determine the sprint plan and set a sprint goal. This meeting is split into two sessions. In the first session, the product owner reviews the list of features and defines what needs to be built during the
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Agile certifications assist professional to improve delivery predictability and accelerate software delivery. Methods and Principles of Agile not only helps in cutting down the overall cost of a project but also helps in reducing rework. Agile has matured now and similar to other domains like Project Management. This is the reason why agile professionals aspire
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SAFe Agilist 5 (Leading SAFe) is a Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) enterprise leadership professional who is part of a Lean-Agile transformation. It is a methodology for large-scale Agile project teams to carry out an Agile transformation seamlessly. The framework effortlessly synchronizes the alignment, collaboration, and delivery of multiple agile teams, leading the way to enterprise success. SAFe framework helps Agile to
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CSM Certification: Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) helps project teams properly use Scrum, increasing the likelihood of the project’s overall success. CSM understands Scrum values, practices, and applications and provides a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers. CSM act as “servant leaders,” Protecting the team from both internal and external
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DBRM: DataBase Request Module has the SQL statements extracted from the host language program by the SQL precompile. The COBOL-DB2 program is preprocessed by DB2 to produce a DBRM that will be used to bind against a particular DB2 subsystem. The Db2 system uses the DBRM to optimize application program interaction. PACKAGE: A package contains control structures that DB2 uses
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IEBGENER and IEBCOPY are IBM utilities used for various operations. IEBCOPY is a data set utility that is used to copy or merge members between one or more partitioned data sets, or partitioned data sets extended (PDSEs), in full or in part. You can also use IEBCOPY to create a backup of a partitioned data
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A PDSE is a Partitioned Data Set Extended. It consists of a directory and zero or more members, just like a PDS. It can be created with JCL, TSO/E and ISPF just like a PDS and can be processed with the same access methods. The directory can expand automatically as needed, up to the addressing
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The FETCH FIRST n ROW ONLY clause is used to limit the result set of a query to a specified number of rows. It is particularly useful when you are only interested in retrieving a subset of the total records. Retrieving the entire result table from the query can be inefficient. You can specify this
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A DB2 null Indicator/value represents missing or unknown information at the column level. When a column is set as null, it can mean one of two things: the attribute is not applicable for certain occurrences of the entity, or the attribute applies to all entity occurrences, but the information may not always be known. It
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DB2 locking and concurrency is a critical part of DB2 as well as batch performance. Batch update jobs processing large amounts of data will need to have restart logic through the use of the COMMIT statement and a program data save area. This will identify the restart point. Commit frequency should be an input parameter
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Depending on the linkage options, the object module of the calling program is linked with the object module of the called program “before or during” execution – referred to as static or dynamic linking. Note : Even if your program is coded to call a program statically, the compiler can convert it to the dynamic
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How to protect few selected cells in an excel document? Select the entire worksheet by clicking the Select All button (the gray rectangle directly above the row number for row 1 and to the left of column letter A). Click Cells on the Format menu, click the Protection tab, and then clear the Locked check
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Scrum Cheatsheet: Scrum is a term from RUGBY. It is an ordered formation of players, used to restart play, in which the forwards of a team form up with arms interlocked and heads down, and push forward against a similar group from the opposing side. The ball is thrown into the scrum and the players try
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Product Backlog Refinement or Grooming is an exercise out of which a prioritized list of work emerged. It consists of Creating & Refining User Stories, Estimating User Stories & Product Backlog Prioritization. Product Backlog is the single source of requirements for any changes to be made to the product. This is for the development team
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LINEAR and BINARY searches can be coded using traditional code or using the SEARCH or SEARCH ALL verb. The one that is coded using traditional code uses an Occurs to define the re-occurrence of the elements in the table and the Subscript to control stepping through the table one element at a time using the
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Using indexes to address a table is more efficient than using subscripts since the index already contains the displacement from the start of the table and does not have to be calculated at run time. Subscripts, on the other hand, contain an occurrence number that must be converted to a displacement value at run time
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The ONCODE built-in function provides a fixed-point binary value that depends on the cause of the last condition. ONCODE can be used to distinguish between the various circumstances that raise a particular condition—for instance, the ERROR condition. For codes corresponding to the conditions and errors detected, refer to the specific condition. 3 in a SELECT/WHEN/OTHERWISE
While executing a job there are many abend code due to which it can fail. Here is a list of common Abend Codes and their explanations. Abend Code:1. S001 – An I/O error occurred. Check reason code for exact cause. Examples are trying to read beyond End of File, trying to write to an input
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Create a poll in Microsoft Outlook email by using Email Voting buttons in an email message. For responses to the poll,it can automatically tabulate the results of the vote in Outlook or export the responses to an Excel worksheet. Create an Outlook message Type your question into the body of the email. Choose options from
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Pictures can dramatically increase the size of your Microsoft Office file (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Publisher, etc.). You can control file size by making choices about the resolution, quality, and compression of an image. One easy way to balance this tradeoff is to match the picture resolution to the use of the document. For example,
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