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When compiling from the command line using the /all command all objects with an extension of cmi, eoisym and ecisym end up in the project folder. Can someone enlighten me about this please? AC------------------------------Alan CavillaStater N.V.Amersfoort NL------------------------------

what is the different between these commands READ READV and MATREAD and how the memory allocation and performance work in these commands.------------------------------Dimuthu DissanayakeSoftware EngineerRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hi All, I'm sure I've posted on this matter before but I just had a bit of a wobble understanding why my code wouldn't compile, until I notice the variable I had used started with the word NEXT (as in Next_Available) and the D3 compile went out and took another shot of tequila and said 'nada - not today hombre'So, just put it out there NEXT (suffix not allowed) and I'm sure there may be others - like NOT and FOR and ...Does anyone care to comment?------------------------------Stefano GallottaManaging MemberSimply Red Open SystemsMilnerton ZA------------------------------

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

There's a prevailing misconception that “legacy” systems and applications are outdated in today’s business environment—including IBM® i. The result? The platform and its applications often end up in a CIO’s crosshairs in a push for greater IT efficiency or competitive superiority. As surprising at it may sound, I've found many CIOs and senior technologists don’t realize that IBM i is a vibrant platform and, despite popular belief, continues to have significant market and competitive strength, having evolved to work with the latest technologies including cloud computing and open-source tools. Here are three ways modernizing IBM i applications help you meet today’s business needs without disruptive, and often unsuccessful, replatforming projects:   Delivering unmatched ROI on your legacy infrastructure Using IBM i, you can streamline business processes and workflows by improving user experiences, reducing processing times, and cutting training times. You can maximize the ROI on y

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