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Status: DeclinedAppreciate the idea. From our experience, the complexity of ChangeMan is best with training. Also, ChangeMan is quite customizable and tutorials for ChangeMan may end up to generic to add any real value as each customer process is different. Recently we have built short videos around certain topics such as REST APIs as well as the new integrations with ZOWE CLI and VSCode Explorer. We will continue to build on those. HiIn the current patch-4 version, we don't see a tutorial reference. This could be a nice feature that will help / assist developers, especially for the new one's who are familiar in eclipse but not in ISPF. Good to have this documentation facility.Regards#TutorialReference

Status: DeclinedAppreciate the IDEA Rajesh. However at this time, we will not able to add this to the next major release. Some functionality was not designed to be supported by Client Pack due to the complexities. Hi While performing some tests in CMN plugin patch4 version, it's been noticed that online form feature is not supported. It would be really good as many users would expect this feature to be in place once it's completely rolled out to all. Thanks to take in account and let us know. Regards#OnlineFormsinCMNplugin

I am trying to install miniconda to allow me to obtain git and other open-source tools and have downloaded and downloaded and transferred miniconda onto my z/OS system (V2.4) and run the miniconda install. (miniconda-zos-1.2-2020-10-01.run and appdev_bundle_1.0)This gives the following NotWritableError to a file / sub-directory within my user home directory during the install. I do not believe I should be changing the permissions as suggested - the userid I ran the install under has the appropriate permissions / authority and is in SYS1 group.Re-running the install gives the same error as it looks like ".conda" directory is created as part of the install. Although the base conda install seems complete it would appear the install process has not finished Can you please tell me what I need to change to successfully complete the install of miniconda------------------------------Clive HarrissIBM UK------------------------------

Hi ,     a customer of mine in Brazil is willing to acquire support for z/OS Open Source tools .  Does any knows how this works,  given the fact there is no Rocket Direct presence in Brazil.------------------------------Daniel RaischRocket Software------------------------------

Just started testing bash out and ran across an issue where if a file is externally linked ie ln -e ONETSTAT /bin/netsat bash fails to find the file CARROS1:/home/carros1: >netstat -bash: netstat: command not found CARROS1:/home/carros1: >ls -la /bin | grep -i netstat erwxrwxrwx 1 TCPIPST OMVSGRP 8 Jul 23 2013 netstat -> ONETSTAT lrwxrwxrwx 1 TCPIPST OMVSGRP 29 Jul 23 2013 onetstat -> …/usr/lpp/tcpip/bin/onetstat onetstat works now if I create a symbolic like in say $HOME/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 PSC050 OMVSGRP 12 Aug 2 12:12 netstat -> /bin/netstat this it find but does not run CARROS1:/home/carros1/bin: >./netstat Killed it is killed instead on the console I have this BPXP028I SPAWN OR EXEC ERROR FOR FILE PATH ./netstat DEVICE ID 169 957 INODE 22892. THE ASSOCIATED MVS MEMBER NAME IS ONETSTAT. SYS1.SEZALOAD which is where ONETSTAT resides is LINKLIST’d and in LPA. So it should be finding it If I add a STEPLIP in OMVS to SYS1.SEZALOAD it w

I am able to call a REST service with an MVS data set using the standard z/OS "//" style, as follows:curl -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X PUT -d @"//'DVFJS.TC.TXT'" https://{hostname}/communication/rest/templateCommunication/{resourceID}However the MVS data set has to already be in the appropriate codepage (ASCII or whatever).  Is there anything I can do at the curl level to indicate that the source file is in EBCDIC and should first be converted to another codepage?------------------------------Frank SwarbrickFirstBank------------------------------

Hello, during installation of miniconda-zos-1.2-2020-10-01.run we get the following error:Building the "base" Anaconda environmentDone.---- installing extra_pkgs to the base env ----conda-repo-cli-1.0.1+2.g39f4600-py_0.tar.bz2:Downloading and Extracting Packages*-None | | ########## | 100%Preparing transaction: doneVerifying transaction: doneExecuting transaction: donepython: set_empty_channel 10: conda_install_extra_pkgs 14: run_setup 64: ./miniconda-zos-1.2-2020-10-01.run 391: cannot executePlease help!------------------------------Andreas Mair------------------------------

Hello,I'm trying to bind a SIMPLE.C (http get ), through XL C/C++ catalogue procedure CBCXB. I see some Symbols unresolved. Any help is very well appreciatedHere is my BIND.SYSLIN INCLUDE '/C/Rocket/curl/lib/libcurl.a'INCLUDE SYSLIB(IOSTREAM)INCLUDE SYSLIB(COMPLEX)INCLUDE SYSLIB(C128N)Bind errorsIEW2339S 1035 THE INCLUDE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY DDNAME /0000001 IS AN ARCHIVE FILE.IEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL curl_easy_cleanup UNRESOLVED. MIEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL fprintf UNRESOLVED. MEMBER COULIEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL curl_easy_strerror UNRESOLVED.IEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL curl_easy_perform UNRESOLVED. MIEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL curl_easy_setopt UNRESOLVED. MEIEW2456E 9207 SYMBOL curl_easy_init UNRESOLVED. MEMBIEW2653E 5112 ENTRY CEESTART FROM OBJECT MODULE IS NO------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks,Sree------------------------------

Going through the installation steps I am getting an error. Installation is successful, however after updating the .bashrc file according to the installation document, I get the following erroneous output when I login via ssh.Output:bash: $'K@a\\242\\205\\231\\245\\211\\203\\205a\\244\\242\\231a\\231\\226\\203\\222\\205\\243a\\205\\243\\203a\\227\\231\\226\\206\\211\\223\\205K\\204a\\203\\226\\225\\204\\201K\\242\\210\\025': command not founduserid/.profile$cat .profileexport _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ONexport _CEE_RUNOPTS="FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)"SHELL=/conda_install_path/bin/bashexec $SHELLuserid/.bashrc$cat .bashrc. /conda_install_path/etc/profile.d/conda.shAnyone experience this before?------------------------------Keith Gagne------------------------------

Hi All.I have the IBM Open Enterprise Python 3.8 for z/OS installed and I am now trying to install the z/OS Miniconda. After I have executed command "./miniconda-py37-zos-2020-10-01.run --path /usr/RocketSW/miniconda/" everything looked good until the " installing extra_pkgs to the base env" phase. At that point I got an error (showed at the very bottom of this message) that I have no idea how to fix. Any idea?$ ./miniconda-py37-zos-2020-10-01.run --path /usr/RocketSW/miniconda/ ******************************************************************************** * Miniconda installation script is starting at 2020.10.05 15:54:13... ******************************************************************************** Checking miniconda instance... Updating Miniconda distribution at '/usr/RocketSW/miniconda/'. Continue? Ýy/N¨ Moving out sensitive files and directories... Extracting packages from distribution... Installing packages... PREFIX=/usr/RocketSW/miniconda installing: preconda ... installi

When installing packages via conda the json files in cond-meta/ are untagged.- untagged T=off -rw------- 1 DEMNT15 STCGRP 163993 Oct 2 15:41 curl-7.66.0-1.json- untagged T=off -rw------- 1 DEMNT15 STCGRP 4339 Oct 2 15:41 expat-2.2.9-4.json- untagged T=off -rw------- 1 DEMNT15 STCGRP 165756 Oct 2 15:41 git-2.26.2-pl524_78.json- untagged T=off -rw------- 1 DEMNT15 STCGRP 2134 Oct 2 15:41 libtag-1.4-1.json- untagged T=off -rw------- 1 DEMNT15 STCGRP 609378 Oct 2 15:41 openssl-1.0.2k-5.json- untagged T=off -rw------- 1 DEMNT15 STCGRP 859718 Oct 2 15:41 perl-5.24.4-4.jsonI think this is a bug.-- Manfred------------------------------Manfred LotzIBM------------------------------

Hi all,I am a bit concerned seeing how much diskspace git 2.26.2-78 uses.When I have installed miniconda the `~/miniconda` directory uses approx. 508MBNow after having installed git: `conda install -c zoss-appdev git` which includes ```curl: 7.66.0-1 zoss-appdev expat: 2.2.9-4 zoss-appdev git: 2.26.2-pl524_78 zoss-appdev libtag: 1.4-1 zoss-appdev perl: 5.24.4-4 zoss-appdev``` the `~/miniconda` directory uses approx 1.6GB disk space.Looking at the Rocket Ported Tools I find curl   202MBperl 128MBgit 164MBIf I sum this up I get approx 490MB.As I cannot see that expat and libtag utilize much diskpace I am asking myself why git 2.26.2-78 uses so much diskspace. Any idea what's going on here?Thanks a lot,Manfred------------------------------Manfred LotzIBM------------------------------

Hi there,Is there anything planned to deliver openssl with AMODE=64?Thanks,Manfred------------------------------Manfred LotzIBM------------------------------

Git 2.26 for z/OS has been released and is generally available via conda for download and installation. In addition to the platform-independent changes between Git release 2.14.5 and 2.26.2, the following changes apply to the z/OS port. Many more character encodings are now supported on z/OS The Git encoding (the character encoding used in the Git server repositories) for text will now always be UTF-8 There are no longer 'default' encodings applied for files in the working tree. This means that, for any given file, if no treatment is specified in gitattributes file: Git will not set a file tag during clone/checkout Git will not allow a tagged file to be added to the index *** It is important to read the release notes section: Migrating from Git for z/OS 2.3.5 or Git for z/OS 2.14.4.z/OS Git 2.26 is *only* available for download and install via conda, the new download and install system for all z/OS open source language and tool ports.------------------------------Peter FandelRocket S

In the older forum there was a comment  by someone at Rocket that Git 2.26 was being worked on and targeted for Q3.Wondering if there is any update on that and if Q3 is still the target?------------------------------Lionel B. DyckContributor to ZIGI - the z/OS ISPF Git Interface (see https://zigi.rocks)------------------------------

Status: DeclinedThis item has not received any further votes for inclusion in the past 12 months since tthe last update.This suggestion is especially useful for any shops that have a baseline load library connected to something like a CICS region.We had a situation years ago where an attempt to scratch components from a baseline load library resulted in the 30-job waiting for data sets, needed to be cancelled, and resubmitted with DISP=SHR.  The issue is that the CMN30DEL (as well as CMN30REN) use DISP=OLD to do the deletion (or rename) of members of the target library.I'm not sure why DISP=OLD is being used in the CMN30DEL and CMN30REN ISPF skeletons, but would a better solution be to use DISP=SHR combined with the CMN$$ENQ skeleton to prevent multiple jobs from updating a given library at the same time?  This would eliminate the issue with the 30-job waiting on data sets because of other resources that are outside of ChangeMan ZMF control.#DataSetUpdateSerialization#DataSet

While summer winds down, life is revving up in the AMC sector. As ever, we will help keep you right up to date. This month–news of virtual events with real benefits, a chance to kick the tyres on new products, and the chance to begin your Digital Transformation journey. Let’s go! Mainframe Market Survey Results The Big COBOL Survey of 2019/20 captured the COBOL and mainframe market in data. It asked important strategic questions of business leaders around the world. What did they say? Join Micro Focus and industry research experts, Vanson Bourne, for this webinar. See how COBOL will continue to support the mainframe as enterprises begin their Digital Transformation journeys. Take the opportunity to better understand the survey results, and pose your questions. When is it? Wednesday, September 23, 2020 @ 12:00 PM CDT Register here Change Management Masterclass Micro Focus ChangeMan ZMF is definitely the software change, configuration, and release management solution for z/OS. But you co

Does anybody have experience with using sparse-checkout in conjunction with git for z/OS?I am trying to use it, but I am encountering some apparent inconsistencies with other platforms.However, I have no real experience using sparse-checkout on any platform, so I would like to get help from someone who does.Thank you in advanceCris

A couple weeks ago we delivered our first Customer-Facing Sprint Review for ChangeMan ZMF 8.2.4. This was well attended by our customers and partners. We highlighted a couple of new features where we demoed new REST API enhancements as well as the new ZMF support for the new Db2 BIND SERVICE command. In addition we announced a new release cadence to better support and partner with our customers. Over the next several weeks and months we plan to hold more Customer-Facing Sprint Reviews like this where we have an opportunity to share our progress with customers and partners and gather their feedback before we GA. Customer-Facing Sprint Reviews is an agile best practice that enhances the customer's experience and gives them influence into the release as well as the roadmap. You can find the Customer-Facing Sprint Review for ChangeMan ZMF 8.2.4 here. Please look for more videos and posts like this in the coming weeks. We plan to have ChangeMan ZMF 8.2.4 GA in the next 2-4 weeks. Stay

Hi All I am looking for a python script to Create a PS/PDS file with LRECL of something which is not default 1024 bytes. Write a KSDS file which is already existing. If someone could also provide the documetnation of python in zos then it would be grateful. Thank you Chetan

Hi, I am using Git repositories whose sources are encoded in UTF-8 with a BOM (3 bytes EF BB BF at the start of the file). When I clone the repository with Git for z / OS, and a “* git-encoding=utf-8 zos-working-tree-encoding=ibm-1147” option declared in a “.gitattributes” file at the root of the repository, the sources are well converted to EBCDIC IBM-1147, but there is a parasitic x3F character at the beginning of the file. Is this problem known and there are plans to resolve it? Note: the “.gitattributes” file must imperatively be encoded in ISO-8859-1 in the “server” Git repository otherwise it is not recognized by Git for z / OS. UTF-8 with BOM: G4Z UTF-8 BOM771×224 23.9 KB EBCDIC IBM-1147: G4Z EBCDIC 11471332×348 10.6 KB

In this post I will walk through the steps necessary to clone a repository from GitHub using Rocket’s port of git for z/OS. Much of the content in this post is contained in the release notes for git for z/OS. In a nutshell These instructions will suffice for readers already familiar with git, ssh, GitHub, and Unix System Services on z/OS. Install git for z/OS, including its dependencies (bash and perl). Set up your environment on z/OS for git, as per the git release notes. Create an account on GitHub (if you don’t already have one). Generate an ssh key pair on z/OS. Add the public key to your account on on GitHub. Clone the repository using the ssh access method for git. A suggested starter repo is https://github.com/zorts/hello_world ;this repo contains an example of a .gitattributes file that arranges for text files to be encoded and tagged as EBCDIC. A more detailed account What, that wasn’t enough? OK, here’s a more detailed description. Install git for z/OS, including its dep

Hello ChangeMan ZMF Admins and Developers! I wanted to take this time to introduce myself as well as provide you with an inside track into ChangeMan ZMF as it relates to delivery of new releases. I am Jimmy O’Rourke and I am the new Product Manager for ChangeMan ZMF, StarTool and Comparex and have been with Micro Focus for more than 8 years, but have only recently become Product Manager for ChangeMan ZMF. Prior to this I was the Product Manager for our Micro Focus SCCM tools (AccuRev, Dimensions CM, StarTeam and PVCS) and have nearly 25 years’ experience in that space. I spent the last few months since joining this team talking to many customers and it has been great to get an appreciation of how you use ZMF today and to understand some of your challenges. I know many of you have not yet taken advantage of the new capabilities we built in our 8.2 release and I understand the effort that you need to invest to move between releases. With this in mind we are delaying the release of Chang

Hi, I am working on a task that requires a few file conversions and copying / writing to other files. Use JCL to convert an MVS file to a text file. Executes a python program on the mainframe. The python program takes the text file as input, performs some operations on it and writes output to another text file. Resume to JCL which converts the new text file to another MVS file. The problem I am having is that when the new text file is being converted / written to another MVS file, the newline character \\n is not recognised. Even when using ‘a+’ as such: with open(‘file.txt’, ‘a+’ ) as f: f.write(rowOutput) The final MVS file keeps having all the content on one line, instead of each row of the text file on a separate line in the MVS file as desired. I have tried adding code that appends “\\n”, “\\n” and even “\\\\n\\n” at the end of every rowOutput. but the MVS file still shows all content as one line. Output of text file using \\\\n\\n: {key1:value1, key2:value2}\\n {key3:valu

Just downloaded r-3.3.2_b0005.170107.tar.gz. The README mentions Python 2.7 which is unsupported now. So, Python 2.7 is no option. Question: Is R supposed to work with a Python 3.x version? – Thanks, Manfred