ChangeMan® ZMF

The documentation for the 8.3 release of both the ZMF and ZMF Client Pack products is now available in HTML. as well as PDF, format. The HTML-formatted documentation provides access to enhanced online search functionality that improves the user experience when accessing the relevant manuals online. Both the HTML and PDF documentation can be accessed on the ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 and ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack 8.3 documentation websites. #ChangeManZMF

There’s one day left in our virtual user group. Recordings from Days 1 and 2 are now available, and the final live session is coming up Thursday, Nov 20 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Day 1 — Thurs, Nov 6: Product Review & Roadmap Deep dive into ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Patch 1 (8.3.1) enhancements and an exclusive preview of 8.3 Patch 2 (8.3.2), targeted for mid‑Q1 2026. Watch the recording. Day 2 — Thurs, Nov 13: Customer Spotlights Real-world experiences, challenges, successes, and practical insights from two customers. Watch the recording. Last day — Thurs, Nov 20 at 11:00 a.m. EST: Open Forum — The Future of ZMF An open discussion on evolving mainframe needs

Hi, we're actually running ChangeMan ZMF 8.3.0 and we're planning ChangeMan activities for next year. I've seen that ChangeMan 8.3.2 should be out in 2026 Q1 so I was searching informations about this version. Is there already a list of fixes and enhancements planned for 8.3.2? I would like also to ask where is the link for the ChangeMan ZMF versions / EOS dates matrix. Thank you. ------------------------------Stefano AntoniazziRaiffeisen Information Service------------------------------

Hello ChangeMan ZMF Community, It has been a longer process than we anticipated, but we now have the Ideas (Enhancements) portal available. This is a different portal than what we had under Micro Focus and Open Text and as such the former Ideas needed to be migrated from the prior portal to new portal that Rocket Software uses. Unfortunately, many of userids attached to the Ideas were not migrated. When possible, the original author's userid were appended to the description. Also, because the Ideas portal is different from the ChangeMan ZMF Community Forum it will require a new registration and it's a different link: Rocket Software Customer Ideas Portal We have been able to add a link from the ChangeMan ZMF Community Forum page on the right-hand panel (Ideas and Enhancem

Join us for a three-part virtual webinar series coming up on November 6,13, and 20th. Attend all three or choose the topics that are most relevant to you.Here’s the lineup:Day 1: Thursday, November 6, 11:00 a.m. EST – Product Review & Roadmap Introductory message from Jeff Boatright, VP of Software Development An in-depth look at the latest enhancements in ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Patch 1 (8.3.1) and an exclusive preview of 8.3 Patch 2 (8.3.2), targeted for mid-Q1 2026 Day 2: Thursday, November 13, 11:00 a.m. EST – Customer Spotlights Opening remarks by Edward Marootian, VP of Product Management Hear directly from your peers as two customers share real-world experiences, challenges, and successes with ChangeMan ZMF, plus practical insights and innovative use cases Day 3: Thursday, November 20, 11:00 a.m. EST – Open Forum: The Future of ZMF

Hi, I have successfully connected to mainframe via ZOWE explorer /CLI. We are now in the process of connecting to changeman via ZMF explorer & CLI.    -While I am getting no errors on the ZMF explorer, it still remains blank.    -Is there a resource to download the ZMF CLI plugin as our system does not allow installation via CLI. We need a physical .  Thanks, Alan ------------------------------Alan MartinData EngineerRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello, Is there a way of downloading the vsix file for the ZMF-CLI pluginDue to network restriction I'm unable to use the command "npm install -g @rocketsoftware/zmf-cli-plugin" Thank you Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello All I was wondering if it would be possible to add the requestorPhone to the panel CMNLIST0 as a criteria fieldThe reason is, via the global admin this field can be assigned another meaning (which we did, at our shop this has a value indicating the type of material in the package). As the field can be adjusted we were wondering if it would be possible to through the interface have this field available to narrow down a list of packages based on that field The XML service Package,Gen_prms,Search supports it so I hope the investment should not be that high ? :-) Thank you Best regards Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello maybe someone can help, I have a changeman application that in the past has installed to a remote site but now the requirement is to only install on the same dev box that Changeman is running on. So i removed the remote site so nobody can add that site when creating a package and i added a local site with a dummy library defined so then it would only do the baseline process. However the 10 job fails(sortof there is no bad rc) with the following error message which causes the 11 job to fail. SYSIN: YON1000455 10 NOD=DUMMY                                  PACKAGE NOT DISTRIBUTED AT ALL REMOTE SITES YON1000455          STATUS NOT CHANGED TO "DIS"                 YON1000455          SYSIN: YON1000455 05 NOD=PICM.CP000000.YON1.#000455K.X.DUMMY    SYSIN: YON1000455 05 SUB=YON11155   has anybody encountered this ? when the package is created there is only one site in the package request.   thanks.                               

We're testing GitZMF and it works in the right direction of adding "new protocols" to access mainframe sources. It's clear how to use it while developing from VSCode or similar. We would like also to use it when we've to orchestrate processes like source scanning, security scanning and so on. It would be great to use the git protocol instead of setting up FTP or custom scripts. At the moment of course we cannot use it because the "prerequisite" is creating a ChangeMan package on the mainframe and a gitZMF pull would work from the package. Can you think of developing something in the GitZMF for getting sources from the baseline maybe for a full application + type key? We know that there is a big gap between a non-mainframe project (where all the sources are "pulled" for working) and a mainframe project where we usually take a specific subset (the package) but still we would also need a way to "pull" the full application...

Hi, I've upgraded my VSCode and ZMF Explorer extension and I've a problem when starting the Extension. My VSCode is now: Version: 1.103.1Commit: 360a4e4fd251bfce169a4ddf857c7d25d1ad40daDate: 2025-08-12T16:25:40.542ZBrowser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.103.1 Chrome/138.0.7204.100 Electron/37.2.3 Safari/537.36 My ZMF Explorer extension is: Id: RocketSoftware.zmfexplorerDescription: VS Code extension that enables editing of ChangeMan ZMF resourcesVersion: 2.0.8Publisher: Rocket Software Inc.VS Marketplace Link: ZMF Explorer - Visual Studio Marketplace

Hello Everyone! We found that in version 8.2 path 7, HLLX integration in the checkin, build, recompile, and relink functionalities does not communicate with XML in terms of consistency and variable content modification.When HLLX is called from the ISP or client pack panels, it returns an error message, but when called via XML, it does not return an error as expected. Could you please inform if there is an enhancement planned for this item?------------------------------Mari SekineBanco Bradesco S/ASão Paulo BR------------------------------

Hello We have a heavy customization on the component change description Would it be possible to foresee HLLX entries on this panel, this in function of the ZMF Client Pack and the ZMF Explorer Best regards Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello all,On VSCODE/ ZMF Explorer, I'm trying to do the parametrization in order to be able to expand/see the INCLUDES and COPY's.For the one's that are on BASELINE I can see them because I've done the parametrization on the zapp.yaml file (the name do not change). But for those that are only inside the Package, VSCODE/ZMF Explorer is not able to find them.Can someone help me with the parametrization ?Thank you in advance,Joao------------------------------Joao CarvalhoSystems EngineerSILCA------------------------------

Hello, It is probably a stupid question, but you can trigger a build in VS Code, when doing so, there are two messages a) compname build submission in progress. Job number pending.. b) compname jobname JOBnnnnn submitted Is there a way to get a message back that the job finished? Thank you Best regards Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hi everyone! As we wrap up the month, I wanted to check in and see how you’re all doing. We’ve had plenty of great conversations here throughout July. Here are a few highlights: ChangeMan ZMF 8.3.2 : fixes and enhancements CM APIs

Is anyone using the CM APIs? My specific question is:  I can successfully call the component/build API to compile/build like-src components. What API do I call to stage non-source components (comparable to ST in the green screens)   ?------------------------------Jim HaworthTechnology EngineerNationwide Mutual Insurance Company------------------------------

An engineer is trying to use the git connector with ChangeMan ZMF/ERO version 8.3.0.   We are using the previous version of the ZMF zowe cli (2.0.4) because of bug in latest version.   The engineer is able to clone the ChangeMan package, they edit source using git.  They commit changes.  No change is made in ChangeMan package.   Engineer pushs the changes and no change is made in ChangeMan package.------------------------------Lisa BrewerSenior System Software EngineerThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyMilwaukee WI US------------------------------

Hi,  I would like to create an overview (or report) containing :    all components of 1 specific TYPE ,    which are in package(s) having a non-BAS status    and which were impacted by a change (reverted, staged, promoted, ...) during the last day.    The report should contain (at minimum) the components name , the package number and the package status. Is there a (standard) option that I could use to get this information ?  Thanks.------------------------------Dirk BollensKbc GroupLeuven BE------------------------------

What VSC Extension (ZMF Explorer) do we need for CM ZMF 8.3.01 ? If an upgraded version, is that generally available through VSC marketplace? We needed to point our IDZ users to the upgraded plugin, and are now getting ready to upgrade a site with VSC users...------------------------------Jim HaworthTechnology EngineerNationwide Mutual Insurance Company------------------------------

We are currently on ChangeManZMF V827 for most of our platforms, but have begun conversion to V831. We have several applications that are decommissioning out of ChangeMan. We have done a couple searches through the Admin and User Guides, but did not find a section for decommissioning/retiring applications. Any help/guidance (especially for automation to assist with): Take a "final" backup of source Scratch/remove/delete all components from baseline libraries Decommission/remove/delete the application ------------------------------Jim HaworthTechnology EngineerNationwide Mutual Insurance Company------------------------------

Hello, In the past we stored specific variables in the ISPF pool that we could use during the ISPF session of the user It would be great to be able to do the same via the VPOOL, this would require a HLLX exit on the primary panel This would give us the ability to store specific userVariables in the VPOOL and retrieve them from any HLLX we would see fit Or a way to store VPOOL variables from outside the HLLX (but that I think is less likely to be provided) Thank you Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

zmf explorer doesn't list package attached to an ERO release?   Will this be included in a future release?------------------------------Lisa BrewerSenior System Software EngineerThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyMilwaukee WI US------------------------------

Hi, as we are using vowel mutations in our programs. I would like to know if there are any plans, for the future, to implement a encoding option in the Profile or a settings option including a encoding option. Because as of now, there are no options to specify the encoding type of the downloaded Program/Component. I looked in the CLI and there wasn't an option as well. I don't know if this is already in progress to implement, or if it's beeing already discussed, but it would be great if this could be implemented. Thanks in advance. Felix Braun------------------------------Felix BraunRocket Forum Shared AccountBolzano Italy------------------------------

HelloI was wondering if it would be possible to have the 3DSKEL variables available in the HLLX exitsI have written a peace of code that when needed I retrieve the one(s) I need at that moment, but it would be nice that they would be available The exit will work very often on a function for a package, component belonging to an application. It would be nice that at that moment the 3DSKEL variables for that application would be available in the HLLX  Thank youBest regardsJohan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------