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Hi, I don't see the Layout editor in Uniface 10.4 to covert the proc to comment and vice versa and also the tools which we had in Uniface version 9.x are missing. Could you please let me know how to add these features in IDE. Thanks, Satheesh ------------------------------Thanks,Satheesh MuthuGopal------------------------------

Hi  While installing the RMS license manager in Linux, I got the below message.  FirewallD is not runningCould not open port 5093. You will need to do this manually later. However, I started the license manager using the command : systemctl start rms Also I found the port is open. Does the port opens when I start the license manager for the first time ? (Because the port was not opened during the installation) Does the firewalld should be running always ? Does the port 5093/udp should be added into /etc/services for sentinel-lm ? if this is not available, do I need to add manually ? ------------------------------Thanks,Satheesh MuthuGopal------------------------------

Hi, Is there any software to install on windows to check the license utilization of different EID's to know how many concurrent license are used at anytime (like DLM) ------------------------------Thanks,Satheesh MuthuGopal------------------------------

  Rocket Customer Community Tutorials Playlist Rocket Customer Community Tutorials - (view all videos as playlist)  Video  Description 1. Introduction Get an overview of the Rocket Customer Community portal, learn how to log in and get familiar with an array of features designed to maximize your Rocket online support experience. 2. Knowledge Base Learn how to browse the Rocket Knowledge Base, find useful how-tos and documented solutions to assist you in resolving issues with ease and at any time. 3. Case Management Explore our step-by-step tutorial to effortlessly submit, follow-up, manage and track progress of your Rocket technical support requests with clarity and transparency.  4. Downloads Access software downloads, updates and patches to boost and unleash your Rocket products full potential. 5. License Keys Benefit from the convenience of monitoring,  obtaining or generating automatically your Rocket products license keys directly from the

Customer Security is a top priority for Rocket Software and is an essential part our customer experience. We are constantly improving our capabilities, practices, and our people to deliver products and services that meet the highest security standards.  However, even with this commitment to security excellence, there are still cases where vulnerabilities can be present. The Rocket Software Security Teams were recently made aware of a vulnerability in the widely utilized Apache Java logging library Log4j2 package that can allow an attacker unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) access to the servers that the run this software. This vulnerability has been tracked as CVE-2021-44228 and is classified as severe. With regard to Rocket Software's products, we have identified which software platforms and versions contain the vulnerable Log4j2 utility code and are actively remediating the affected products.  Rocket Software highly recommends that customers running impacted software package

Users of Rocket Uniface, Rocket Process Integration and Rocket MVVS (MultiValue Basic for VS Code) have new homes in the Rocket Forum. What other products or topics are you interested in discussing?------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer AdvocacyRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY US------------------------------

The MultiValue product team recently shared updated roadmaps for Rocket's suite of MV databases and tools. Check them out here and be sure to join an MV-specific forum to receive notices of future live roadmap events. In Q1 2022, the team will be including the recently-acquired Zumasys MV products in the roadmap discussion.------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer AdvocacyRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY US------------------------------

With so much data and so many use cases, it's critical for IT leaders to choose the right tools and methods to unlock the value of their enterprise data. Interested in learning about the latest strategies and approaches, as well as latest capabilities in IBM Db2 tools for z/OS to help manage these challenges? Attend the IDUG EMEA virtual conference to hear from Rocket experts and other industry leaders. Reply below with a short description of your data management challenges and goals, and we'll be happy to send you a free pass to IDUG EMEA '21. Hurry, the conference starts Monday!------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer AdvocacyRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY US------------------------------

Milan officially becomes the second Rocket Software CEO ever on November 5th. Just this week he spoke to Paul Muller on the acclaimed podcast Digital Disrupted about topics including magnets, his new role, modernization, and the clouds. Get to know Milan and the podcast by clicking here. There's also a very provocative  discussion about the word 'legacy' and what it actually means (29:18). Check it out and share your thoughts and questions below.As an added bonus you can read the academic paper mentioned at the end of the podcast right here! ------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer AdvocacyRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY United States------------------------------

The Rocket Forum is comprised of many sub-forums, the main ones being oriented around a product. If you only ever see news from the General Discussion forum (this one), you may be missing out on product tips and tricks, exclusive activities and meetings, or just learning about what your colleagues are working on. Joining any sub-forum is easily done from the All Forums page and takes seconds. Just login and hit the join button, and you'll be asked to set your communications preferences so you never miss important updates.If the products you use aren't listed consider joining the Other Products forum. Start a conversation or share what specific products for which you'd like to see a dedicated forum. ------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer AdvocacyRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY United States------------------------------

In partnership with IBM, Rocket Software is proud to sponsor GSE UK Region conference (Nov 2 -11). Some of Rocket's foremost thought leaders are sharing insights at the conference. Note all times are UTC. Full conference agenda can be viewed here.✔Nov 2, 10:30 SDSF Security – How does it work on z/OS 2.5 and onwards, Rob Scott, Principal Architect, Distinguished Engineer✔Nov 3, 14:00 Debugging CICS Storage Violations Using IPCS, Ezriel Gross, Principal Solutions Advisor, IBM Champion✔Nov 3, 14:00 The Millenialization of the Mainframe and Beyond, Ewan Stewart, Systems Practice Leader EMEA✔Nov 4, 10:30 Optimize z/OS Performance with Easy-to-Use, Actionable Analytics, Guy Muller, VP, Software Engineering✨Nov 8, 15.30 Keynote - The Next Generation DBA, Saghi Amirsoleymani, VP, Z Business Unit and IBM Champion✔Nov 9, 15:30 CICS Performance and Tuning 101, Ezriel Gross, Principal Solutions Advisor, IBM Champion✔Nov 10, 9:00 Db2 Clients, Connect, Gateways – what do I really need?, Christoph T

Members are what make communities great, so I want to applaud all you've done to make this site into the amazing resource it has become. The stats speak for themselves.  Thank you.I encourage you to tell your colleagues about the forum and suggest that they join us. Growing the network helps us all. https://community.rocketsoftware.com/registerKeep the conversations going. Keep sharing your success and challenges. Keep helping us all advance.Best regards,Dave------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer AdvocacyRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY United States------------------------------

If you operate a hybrid environment and use mainframe data in the cloud, you are probably doing this: Use FTP or some other tool to transfer mainframe generated data to cloud Your cloud native app picks its up, does some processing, say, some advanced analytics on the data. You transfer back the processed data from cloud to mainframe for further processing. We are investigating alternatives including being able to accomplish all of this via a single mainframe job that could interact and synchronize processing with your cloud-native app as well as enable your existing jobs to interact with cloud with minimal or no JCL changes at all!  We are very interested in showing you this solution and understanding how well it might support your business needs. Please reply below if you are interested and we'll reach out to schedule some time with you. Thanks! ------------------------------Ajith ThankappanRocket Internal - All Brands------------------------------

Is your organization using Slack?  It seems to be dominating the 'business-social-media'  sector, but there are other tools like Microsoft Teams.We have been using Slack for 1 year now and I find it invaluable but with some caveats. First one being, if you are sending out information to large groups, how do you know people are reading it? I constantly worry about that - but I realise that you have the same jeopardy if you send out a group email. They are ways to track in Outlook but it's not pretty.I think the problem could be solved if 'professionals' were not so reticent with using the power of emoji's. I definitely used to regard the use of emoji's as juvenile and not-business-like. But in the last year I have done a 180 on that. They are an essential tool for fast & effective communication.These are some I now use: 👀 = I've read it, 👍🏼 = I get it/approve/thanks  ✅ = done it, 👏🏼= well done/great work(FYI: If you press the Windows key + period in any MS Windows 10 system it

Hi members,Following the changes made yesterday, some of you are seeing contact details on your profile that may not be exactly what you'd like. People who registered with personal emails or different emails than we have in our CRM system may be seeing 'Rocket Forum Shared Account' as their company. Others may also see this, but know we will be working over the next 30 days to align you to your business/company.While it will take a little time to complete this work, feel free to contact me if you want any information on profile to be updated on an expedited basis. Another tool you can use is to update your discussion signature block which is independent from your profile. While you can use your profile details you are also able to fully customize your signature block too.------------------------------David AndrewsHead of Customer EngagementRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NYUnited States------------------------------

I am new to the Rocket forums but am interested to collaborate with others using SB Client to interface with Epicor's Avante.  Can I get some direction on the best or appropriate forum to join.  Thank you in advance.------------------------------EricISSPRO, Inc.OR United States------------------------------

Hi Forum members,You may have seen this announced on the home page, but I wanted to offer a little more information on what's happening and what it means to you as a member.What's HappeningThe forum login and registration will be disabled on Monday the 12th. Get your questions posted Friday or over the weekend if you are looking for rapid response, or know you'll need to wait until Tuesday if you want to comment, ask a question, etc.We are merging the forum user list with our crm records. This gives the forum better 'line of sight' to your Rocket business relationship, your support cases, etc., with the goal of delivering a better user experience. As an example, a goal of mine is to allow you to seamlessly move between the support portal and the forum. This change gets us a step closer to that.What to Expect in the Short TermOverall, your experience won't change on Tuesday the 13th. You will start to see different information on your profile page, coming from your crm record. For examp

A few members have asked how to get their site profile to 100% complete, so I'm sharing what is required for a bio to be considered completed. Head to your profile page to follow along. Click on the pencil and/or action buttons to update. Profile Picture Contact Details (see the left rail below your picture and badges) First Name Last Name Job Title Company City (also requires country and state/province selection) Bio Rocket Software Products used ------------------------------Dave AndrewsHead of Customer EngagementRocket SoftwareSouth Salem NY United States------------------------------

The new forum is live after a few hiccups on Friday. I invite you to check out the streamlined design and navigation, and to login to see your personalized dashboard. The dashboard provides a central point for all your forum activity allowing you to get more done, more quickly.Once you've had a chance to experience the new forum p lease consider taking the survey in the announcement area on the home page and tell us what you think. ------------------------------Dave AndrewsHead of Customer EngagementRocket Software------------------------------

Guy, engineering director for Rocket's z/OS analytic products, helped launch the latest IBM Expert TV channel - z/Action - last week. Check out his recommendations for setting up an environment to understand performance and availability, and how to analyze this data to quickly derive actionable insights.   Providing a positive customer experience starts with performance and availability data. There's no shortage of RMF data to analyze -- but what data can be contextualized and shared with stakeholders in a simple, meaningful fashion? In this episode, you'll learn z/OS customer approaches on RMF data analysis; examples of useful KPIs and their associated use cases; and why ease-of-use, visibility, automation, and actionable metrics should be top-of-mind when choosing an analytics solution. Rocket experts will be featured regularly on IBM Expert TV so I encourage you to subscribe to them here. Let us know below if we can answer any questions on the video or the subject of

Every year at Rocket we get the opportunity to pitch an idea for a technical project and do a bit of inventive hacking. We call this fun event Rocket Build 🚀.This year I wanted to find out if there is any value in using a Machine Learning sentiment algorithm to scan our huge mass of support comments to identify whether contacts (clients/users etc..) were happy (aka satisfied) with their support experience or not, so we could take remedial action. (We already do this of course - but only if we can identify it)On average we get about 15% survey responses on closed support issues (cases), which is a pretty good result. So we have a significant sample of data where the contact personally identifies whether they were satisfied or not with the experience AND we could use this sample data to train an sentiment algorithm on the remaining 85% of cases. - but would it really work?It seems that some people like replying on case surveys, but most don't. So a lot of those survey could be bias by t

Emulators are everywhere there's a mainframe or midrange platform, and used by IT pros and application end-users alike. How can we make the Rocket Terminal Emulator (formerly BlueZone) better for you? Take this quick survey and let us know if you'd be willing to talk to us about your responses. If you talk to us we'll even send you a pair of Rocket flannel pajama pants!Use this link to take the survey and also be sure to join the Rocket Terminal Emulator forum if you haven't already.------------------------------Dave AndrewsHead of Customer EngagementRocket Software------------------------------

The forum is getting a facelift that's a bit more than skin-deep. As I always tell members there's more to see and do when you log in, and the new design brings much of that to the forefront. I think what you'll discover will improve the overall value you get as a member, as well as make the site easier to use. The look is cleaner as well, which should improve readability and usability. Here's a sneak peek: We're roughly 2 weeks away from going live so wanted to provide a little notice, as well as open the floor again for any suggestions on improving the site or the content we're delivering to you. Let me know below what would improve your overall experience and the value you get, and we'll do our best to deliver it. Additionally, I'm looking for members to test the new site - likely at the end of next week - so comment below if you'd be interested in helping us out in that way.Cheers! ------------------------------Dave AndrewsHead of Customer EngagementRocket Software-----------------

As a forum member you've likely seen posts by @Andrew Simpson on a variety of topics, but his specialty is helping organizations automate processes to improve speed and accuracy. Come learn about the best practices in this area from Andrew - you may be surprised at what's possible on a mainframe! ------------------------------Dave AndrewsHead of Customer EngagementRocket Software------------------------------

Hi folks,We are trying to create a shared repository/folder for our product's customers, something similar to Eclipse's p2 shared repository. Let's say user A is consuming some specific configurations from a repo. for his/her product installed on the machine. Another user (unaware of any config. details) - a novice one, installs the same product on his machine. Now what we are planning to do is if we could provide some shared repository(having all the latest config files) to the user so that he/she could just use that repo, and should easily be able to install it on top of its product. And it should then have the same config. just like user A or any other user(s) for that matter. Basically to create a centralized repo. which the users could access. Also, whenever the shared repo. gets updated with some new config. files/changes, ALL the users of that product should receive a notification that the repository has some new changes/updates, and they could fetch them from the shared repo.