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Program CMNVSRVC executes exactly the same underlying ChangeMan ZMF Services as its public-facing equivalent, the XML Services (i.e. programs SERXMLxC). Several of the ISPF skeletons (skels) shipped with the product execute required services using CMNVSRVC rather than SERXMLBC or any of its SERXMLxC counterparts.The XML Services and their associated tags are fully documented in various product manuals and KB articles. However, the CMNVSRVC keywords used in the distributed skels are not documented. For various reasons, customers may need to verify or customize the shipped skels to investigate issues and/or include additional parameters/keywords that are required in their environment.  Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013873#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Article to explain potential causes of a ‘Logon Error or Invalid CMN port specified...’ error message being issued when connecting to a ZMF Server started task. Possibly accompanied by LIC0033E & LIC0063E messages in the ZMF Server started task. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013900#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

An environment is configured with the RACF option PASSWORD(NOMIXEDCASE) – “MIXED CASE PASSWORD SUPPORT IS NOT IN EFFECT” specified. If a user attempts to login from any off-mainframe interface (e.g. the REST Services API web app, the Client Pack UIs (ZDD or ZMF4ECL), etc.) with a lower or mixed-case RACF password phrase, which is always case sensitive despite the above option, rather than a password they fail with the following type of error message: ICH408I USER(USER001 ) GROUP(SUPPORT ) NAME(SUPPORT USER ) LOGON/JOB INITIATION - PASS PHRASE IS NOT VALID Problem originally reported for the REST Services API web app running against an 8.2 Patch 5 ZMF Server environment. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000014053#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

A new Readme file will be produced for each release of ChangeMan ZMF and the ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack (i.e. ZDD and ZMF4ECL) user interfaces. The Readme file contains New Feature and Fix information related to that specific release of the software. It will also contain links to KB articles containing similar information for prior patch releases. If your upgrade is skipping any interim patch levels, please take the time to review changes in the interim releases as well as the version to which you are upgrading. For example, if you are moving from ZMF 8.2 Patch 5 to 8.2 Patch 7, please click on the links contained in the ‘New Features and Fixes in ChangeMan ZMF 8.2 Patch 6’ section. This will hopefully prevent any surprises that may be encountered during testing or after upgrade to the new product release.#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTip#ChangeManZMF

Hi, I have some packages staying in APR status after approval (no error in distribution).I read It maybe caused by the influence of asid parameters in the file tailoring service. Did I well understand ?If Yes :1/ please, could you tell where I can verify my current ASID ?because when i do /f jobname,ASIDSthe response is SER0851W Unrecognized operator command ignored: ASIDS2/ please, where can I find the sernet keyword option ASID at startup?3/ Please, Can you tell me about this command : /F jobname,ASID=(64,30) ? Best regards.#ChangeManZMF

Our changeman Admin (and only Admin) left abruptly and it looks like i'm it now. There is a parm SITEADMINS That is followed by his RACF Id.    I can't find anything in the manuals about this.  Can I put additional ones there like XX03,XX15,XX36? Or do I need a new line for every SITEADMINS statement#ChangeManZMF

Prior to the 8.2 Patch 3 release, the ChangeMan ZMF for Eclipse (ZMF4ECL) Client pack user interface required installation of the ZMF Web Services (zmfws.war) in a web application server environment of choice. Changes in 8.2 Patch 3, however, removed this requirement and the following is documented in all ZMF4ECL Readme files since that release: “IMPORTANT! ZMF for Eclipse 8.2 Patch 3 and later releases have removed the dependency on ZMF Web Services. This simplifies the installation and configuration process as well the set-up process for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections.” Some of the remaining ZMF4ECL documentation still currently refers to the need for the separate installation of zmfws.war. This will be updated in due course and any references to zmfws.war for use by ZMF4ECL can be ignored in the interim.#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#SupportTip

Hello,  Please, could you tell me how are these files different and what is their meaning? CMNCMPNL (Long-Name Component Master) and CMNCMPNT (Short-Name Component Master) Many thaks  Regards Manuel#ChangeManZMF

This is an FYI post because it was an issue for us.In git 2.35, a new feature was added that checks if the user executing the git command is the owner of the git root directory and will fail if they don't match.This feature seems to have found it way into version 2.26.2-87 somewhere between 2.26.2-84 and 2.26.2-87.This feature can be disabled withgit config --global--add safe.directory '*'There is a bunch of customizations to this command that might be relevant for you - read the documentationYou can also read why the check was added - setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory · git/git@8959555------------------------------Adam Martin BrittIT-ArchitectBECRanders SV DK------------------------------

The list of defects that have been addressed in the ChangeMan ZMF 8.2 Patch 7 Client Pack user interfaces. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013396#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

The list of defects that have been addressed in the ChangeMan ZMF 8.2 Patch 7 release. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013397#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Customers who use the XML Services interface to customize ChangeMan ZMF product behavior or to integrate other applications with ChangeMan ZMF need to know about changes, additions, or deletions to the XML Services or their subordinate request and result tags from release to release. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013585#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

The COBOL copybooks associated with 'yellow' XML Services (see Additional Information for details) are not distributed with the shipped ChangeMan ZMF installer. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013586#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Customers who use, or wish to use, the XML Services interface to customize ChangeMan ZMF processing require access to detailed, release-specific documentation covering the services and tags that are available to them. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013583#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Utility program CMNAUDRC can be used to reset the audit return code associated with a ChangeMan ZMF change package. Prior to ChangeMan ZMF 6.1, users who were defined as both an application administrator and who also possessed UPDATE access to the package application security entity could submit a CMNAUDRC job completely outside of ZMF to reset a package’s audit return code. After upgrading to ZMF 6.1, however, these jobs now fail with a RC=08 and the following message: CMN1094A - entity authorization required. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000013569#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

In the past, customers needed to open a case with the Support team to access specific documentation and/or the ‘yellow’ (see ‘Caution’ below) XML Service COBOL copybooks that are associated with a given release of ChangeMan ZMF. However, for recent releases, this information is now made available to all customers for self-service in the Knowledgebase. E.g. for the recent 8.2 Patch 7 release: - the XML Services Reference Tables (html) can be found here. - the XML Services Delta Report 8.2 Patch 7 vs 8.2 Patch 6 can be found here. - and the XML Services COBOL copybooks for the yellow services can be found here.  (Caution: Yellow services are intended for use by Professional Services and customers with detailed knowledge of the ZMF meta data. Yellow services are intermediate services which provide access to CREATE, UPDATE, and some DELETE functions. Careful design and testing should be conducted to ensure your implementation of a yellow service functions as intended and doe

We have been using bash GNU bash, version 4.3.46(51)-release (i370-ibm-openedition) which is pretty old. Just updated to all the new Opensource Rocket tools and the new bash (5.1.0) does not call the .bashrc (or bashrc) anymore. Switch back to the old version (4.3.46) and it works fine with no other changes.Any ideas on why I am having this issue? Potential solutions?Thanks Mark Shackelford------------------------------Mark ShackelfordSystems ProgrammerDynatraceDetroit MS US------------------------------

ChangeMan ZMF 8.2 Patch 7 was released to customers on 24th January 2023. The software can be downloaded here. The documentation for the base product can be accessed here and the Client Pack documentation here.#SupportTip#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Status: Delivered We are planning to upgrade the CICS 6.1 soon .when i checked with micro focus vendor got the below reponse . At this point in time there is no ZMF version that is compatible with CICS 6.1.  As you are aware CICS 6.1 was only released in June, so we haven't released a release as yet which has been tested with CICS 6.1, we have a major release panned, ZMF 8.3 in the spring next year (2023), so it will be this release that will hopefully be compatible with CICS 6.1.However to make sure that this happens you can put in an IDEA on our Community, so that our Product Management can see that you are going to upgrade CICS to 6.1.  See URL to the IDEA section on our ZMF Community page. Kindly provide me update compatibility version of change man ZMF which supports CICS 6.1 Thanks Kishor #ZMF4ECL#ZMF#ZMFPluginActivityLogs#ZMFReports

Hi Team,I am trying to clone the repo from Bibucket to IBM IDz by Egit and Rocket git but some unstaged files are coming from the Bitbucket server everytime.Could you please suggest what should be the solution for this?------------------------------Ratnam GuptaRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

A question regularly asked of ChangeMan ZMF Support is to explain the combination of security profile access requirements that allow access to various functions. For example, USERA needs to be able to approve packages but not create packages or change components in APPA. Or USERB needs access to backout packages in APPB. When initially assessing this type of requirement, a very helpful table exists in the Security Entities and Required Authority section of Chapter 3 in the ChangeMan ZMF Installation Guide. The 8.2 Patch 6 version of this manual is currently available here.#SupportTip#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

I am having trouble getting the Miniconda environment working without breaking BPXBATCH.I have a sample BPXBATCH job://BPXBATCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=512M,PARM='sh java -version'//STDENV DD * //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* If I follow the Miniconda instructions for login shell of /bin/sh, the program specified in the BPXBATCH parm is not executed.If I change the login shell to bash, and add conda.sh to .profile, the program is executed (i.e. attempted)  but the PATH etc. is not set. It appears that bash does not execute .profile when invoked from BPXBATCH.(This may be a bash problem rather than Miniconda.)Any suggestions about how to get this working without breaking BPXBATCH?ThanksAndrew Rowley------------------------------Andrew RowleySelf RegisteredBallarat AU------------------------------

Hello Is strace command available for USS?------------------------------John DavisDeveloperBroadcom Corporation------------------------------

Hi Team, How to check If ASG PRO JCL V3R5  is compatible with which Changeman version ? Please let me know where to check.#ChangeManSSM

Mainframe-based client connections to the ZMF Server started task may be one of two types: 1. Cross Memory Services (XMS) connections are available when the user or batch job issuing the connection request is executing on the same LPAR that hosts the ZMF Server task. 2. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connections can be used on both the LPAR hosting the ZMF Server task and also from other LPARs that are connected to the ZMF Server task host LPAR (i.e. via Load Balancing Option (LBO) functionality). Prior to ChangeMan ZMF 8.2 Patch 5, each utility that connected to the ZMF Server started task chose its own default initial connection mechanism. For example, the batch XML Service utility SERXMLBC defaulted to XMS connections whereas its rexx equivalent, SERXMLRC, defaulted to TCP/IP. However, a change was made in the 8.2 Patch 5 release to standardise all such connection methods. Since that change all connections will default to XMS whenever available to ensure op