Successful Scrum Master – Tips & Tricks

A successful Scrum Master ‘s key responsibilities include creating successful scrum teams with strong skills in self-organization and cross-functionality and a drive for continuous improvement. Helping & supporting Product Owners in visualizing progress, creating a transparent Product Backlog, and maximizing the value of the product. Helping organizations in making & successfully adopting Scrum by supporting management in changing processes, […]

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IEFBR14 JCL Utility

Convert Date DDMMMYY to MM/DD/YY Format

DFSORT doesn’t have a built-in function for Convert Date – interpreting the month field of date in DDMMMYY formats as numeric values but you can use INREC and OUTREC statements to translate the month back and forth. Let’s take an example assuming that the DDMMMYY date is in positions 1-7. BUILD=(3,3, 3,3, CHANGE=(2,C’Jan’,C’01’,C’Feb’,C’02’,C’Mar’,C’03’,C’Apr’, C’04’,C’May’,C’05’,C’Jun’,C’06’,C’Jul’,C’07’,C’Aug’,C’08’, C’Sep’,C’09’,C’Oct’,C’10’,C’Nov’,C’11’,C’Dec’,C’12’),

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SQL wildcards use in Queries

SQL wildcards are used to substitute one or more characters in a string. We use SQL wildcards when we need to search for complex data. This complex data could compromise strings or numerical with special characteristics. Wildcards also come in handy when we want to speed up our querying process. The results are considerably fast

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HAVING Clause in DB2 SQL Queries

HAVING clause is used to apply a filter on the result of  GROUP BY based on the specified condition. The conditions are Boolean type i.e. use of logical operators(AND, OR). This clause was included in SQL as the WHERE keyword failed when we use it with aggregate expressions. It is a very generally used clause in SQL. Similar to WHERE

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OUTREC control statement use in SORT

OUTREC control statement is used to reformat (adds, deletes, or reformats fields) each record after they are sorted, merged, or copied by specifying all of its items one by one. This statement supports a wide variety of parsing, editing, and reformatting tasks. We can even add spaces/zeroes/any character into the output record based on the requirement.    

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Product Goal in relation to Product Backlog & Product Vision

There are three commitments (Product Goal, Sprint Goal, and Definition of Done) were added to the artifacts. Product Goal provides additional quality to the artifact to improve transparency. For Product Backlog, the commitment is the Product Goal. These are a set of tangible and measurable expressions of what success looks like for a product. It connects Product

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