Several articles have been published over the last year referencing maintenance we deem as high priority for customers moving to the ZMF 8.3 release. These follow:

 Support Tip: Recommended maintenance for customers running or upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 
Support Tip: Further maintenance recommended for customers running or upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 
Support Tip: Additional maintenance recommended for customers upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 (September 2023)  

We recently diagnosed and produced a hotfix for a newly reported problem that falls into the same category. Customers running or upgrading to ZMF 8.3 and who use the default LDS mechanism to house their Impact Analysis (I/A) table should familiarise themselves with the problem documented in the following KB article and follow the instructions supplied to request the hotfix:

ZMF 8.3.0.038/OCTCR46A377001 Impact Analysis table-related functions failing without explanation

As always, the same notes, caveats, etc., as before apply to the above recommendation. Namely:

a. All of the issues listed above, and their associated hotfixes, apply to the ZMF 8.3 release ONLY. These hotfixes must not be requested or applied to anything other than ZMF 8.3 subsystems.
b. Other known issues and further hotfixes do exist for the ZMF 8.3 release. However, those listed above are the ones assessed at time of publication of this Support Tip (i.e. 28th February 2024) as being particularly pervasive or troublesome if they were to be missed during upgrade testing.
c. Further Support Tips may be published in future should additional problems/fixes in the ZMF 8.3 release be assessed as being equally potentially problematic.
d. To request any of the hotfixes listed above please open a new case, one per hotfix, asking that the hotfix be supplied.
e. Similarly, should you hit any other issues during your ZMF 8.3 testing or upgrade then, again, please open a new case and we will be happy to assist.