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Born and raised on open systems and wanting to edit z/OS source code in Eclipse? Check out the Eclipse’s ‘Remote System Explorer’ plugin to read and edit remote files on my local machine. Works well for all file types except you have to explicitly specify the encoding type to: IBM 1047, during the remote machine configuration, within Eclipse.

We're a longtime Changeman shop now undertaking modernization. We're presently upgrading to a more current version of ZMF and looking at a purchase of the client pack. We have the CA-Lisa product for 'open system' deploys. Can we integrate Changeman with CA-Lisa? If so, can you please provide direction on how to do this?#ChangeManZMF

Fixed a type definition for package create phone number fields from 'number' to 'string'. Change tempChangeDuration from 'string' to 'number'.   #Announcement#z/OS#ChangeManZMF#zowe#CLI

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

Need information regarding ChangeMan ZMF (or ChangeMan SSM, Comparex, StarTool FDM, and StarTool IOO) compatibility with the host machine hardware on which it runs? This can be found in KM000006539.#hardware#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#compatibility

We will be upgrading the layout of our forumtonight, making it cleaner, easier to navigate, and optimizing the mobileexperience. We hope you like the new look and feel as much as we do. Giveus your feedback, and let us know what you think. #ChangeManZMF

In ZMF 8.1.1 until 8.1.4, the CMN$$STP skeleton was imbedded in skeletons CMN21 and CMN49. OCTCR46A20804 changed this and as of ZMF 8.2.0 removed the CMN$$STP skeleton from skeletons CMN21 and CMN49, and imbedded CMN$$STP in skeletons CMN20, CMN20I, CMN50 and CMN50I.The 8.2 Patch 6 'ZMF DB2 Getting Started Guide', on page 141, still show skeleton CMN$$STP as being imbedded in skeletons CMN21 and CMN49. Full article: https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000006369#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Hi, I tried to install sudo (sudo-1.8.6p3_b009.170419) on z/OS 2.3. README.ZOS tells a alot about the installation process. But nothing about the customization of /ect/sudo.conf. When I run sudo with sample.conf delivered as sample an error occured that no sudoers.so was found. If I delete or comment the both lines in sudo.conf: Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so Plugin sudoers_io sudoers.so the execution of sudo fails with a message: unable to initialize policy plugin. How should sudo works with only the deliverd files in package sudo-1.8.6p3_b009.170419? Thanks for your help. Kind regards, Björn

A frequent cause of customer problems that we see in the Support team is related to batch JOBs executing on unexpected LPARs. Even when JOBs are actually submitted on the correct, expected LPAR, a variety of factors may dictate that the JOB is routed away to another LPAR for execution. If your problem could be related to a JOB running on an incorrect LPAR, it is always worth taking a moment to confirm that it did actually execute on the anticipated LPAR before progressing investigation. For example, in a JES2 environment, the following kind of message may provoke an assumption that the job actually executed on the LPAR named LPA1:                    J E S 2  J O B  L O G  --  S Y S T E M  L P A 1  --  N O D E  M A C H I N 1 However, the subsequent $HASP373 message shows that the job actually executed on LPA2: 05.29.19 J0703655  $HASP373 USER01J  ST

CMN 5.3 - CMN2562I - Component associate dataset is in use by another user. A **recomp** member gets this error when we try to delete it from the package.How to fix this? anyone ?#ChangeManZMF

Hello!  When running miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run on z/OS 2.4 via zPDT (mADCD) I'm getting the following syntax error:``` IBMUSER:/S0W1/tmp: >./miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run --path ~/miniconda/ ./miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run: line 53: syntax error near unexpected token `$'04360'' ./miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run: line 53: ``???0d(?'`````` ls -alT miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run appdev_manifest_1.1.1.txt t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rw-r--r--   1 OMVSKERN SYS1         659 Jun 24 13:52 appdev_manifest_1.1.1.txt t ISO8859-1   T=on  -rwxr-xr-x   1 OMVSKERN SYS1     81071562 Jun 24 14:07 miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run```Confirmed EBCDIC: ``` IBMUSER:/S0W1/tmp: >od -h -N 20 miniconda-zos-1.2.1-2020-12-23.run  0000000000    7B  5A  61  82  89  95  61  A2  88  15  15  7B  40  81  93  93 0000000020    96&nb

I compared my environment before activating sudo and after and found that the activate defines /conda/envs/sudo/lib in the LIBPATH but there is no /lib under /sudo ...?Is this a known 'bug' in the conda setup for sudo?

Hello, I was helping a mainframe user who couldn’t use curl to access an Apache server (on distributed) with curl 7.28.0 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/7.28.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1c zlib/1.2.7 iconv libssh2/1.4.3 Apache was returning a 400 error. On a hunch I inspected the TLS server_name extension and sure enough it was garbled (to me does not even look like EBCDIC). 0000 89 88 a2 a2 a5 95 4b 99 a3 97 4b 99 81 93 85 89 …K…K… 0010 87 88 4b 89 82 94 4b 83 96 94 …K…K… The hostname should be “libfsfe01.hursley.ibm.com” which is not externally addressable. You do not need a failing SSL server to see the problem. The Host: header at HTTP layer and server_name extension should be the same ascii bytes even if not getting an error.

Hello, Can anyone help me understand the use and difference of these two products. Serena ChangeMan builder (openmake) 6.4.1 and Serena Configuration builder 7.5. Thank you.#ChangeManZMF

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Status: Already OfferedAlready OfferedAs of ZMF 8.1 a new featur is available : User field name substitution (A.G.9). They are not replicated in ZDD and ZMF4ECL. To me this looks like an inconsistent behaviour between interfaces. 

Status: DeliveredIncluded in ZMF 8.3Please enhance panel CMNUTL02 and its underlying program code to support scrolling (left/right) the ISPF Stats columns to display standard ISPF stats columns such as ‘user ID’ that aren’t currently displayed on the CMNUTL02 panel. Business case: need to scratch all members in a library that were modified by my user ID, so I need to display and sort the member list based on that column of information but can’t do that presently since that column is no longer displayed on the screen and standard ISPF left/right scrolling is also not currently supported on the screen to display that information. The underlying code does actually support use of the primary command SORT ID already, but you just can't see the data that was sorted on since the ID column is not displayed and can't be scrolled to display.

I have set up a rule and notification in Teamtrack with selected users but it works fine to some users (admins) but not others (standard user) as they are getting nothing and I cannot see anything being sent in the log file.#ChangeManZMF#Notifications#teamtrack#Rules

During startup of a ZMF 8.2 Patch 4 task a S0C4-10 abend was encountered in module SERXMSIP at offset 76C. The abend is accompanied by a SER0953E message indicating that processing failed in the PARM#UPD function. Full article:https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000017145#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF

Question posted 10/19/10 by R.CordoniDetails:Natively ChgMan ZMF don't allow access to Staging Variables (filled in Panels CMNUSR01 to 04) in "Query Package" after a Checkout.Does someone have a TIP, TRICK or SUGGESTION for this issue ?I'm doing the Checkout in Batch mode.Thanks in advance.#ChangeManZMF#post9e8e04a442#oldforumpost#stagingvariables

A customer encountered the following abend when running a package audit job: IEA995I SYMPTOM DUMP OUTPUT 892 SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=0C4 REASON CODE=00000010 TIME=07.26.03 SEQ=05610 CPU=0000 ASID=0091 PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 078D1000 97855B20 ILC 2 INTC 10 ACTIVE MODULE ADDRESS=00000000_17854658 OFFSET=000014C8 NAME=CMNBINDN DATA AT PSW 17855B1A - 18F54140 40020E4E B24900F1 GR 0: 8300C2E4 1: 179603B8 2: FFFFC2E4 3: 00000001 4: 17819BFC 5: FFFFC2E4 6: 1A4C2BE0 7: 1A4C2C74 8: 17955BE0 9: 179603B8 A: 17E06082 B: 17855658 C: 9785

Status: Waiting for VotesThe default 35 character description is plenty in most cases. Some users have requested an option to create a longer description for certain changes.#ZMF

Hello, folks… I have downloaded Bash 4.2.53 from Rocket Software site for installation in a z/OS V2R2 environment. The download was successful and the file downloaded was “bash-4.2_b0005.160513.tar.gz”. However, when I upload (in binary mode) to z/OS’s USS and try to “tar” it (tar zxvf bash-4.2_b0005.160513.tar.gz) I receive an error message indicating that the file is not in compressed format. I haven’t found any clue in this forum… Can you please help me with this issue? An additional detail: I discovered a link to the theoretically newer file “bash-4.3_b0008.160714.tar.gz” but the same error occurs. Thank you very much and best regards. Gustavo Lozano IBM Brazil

Hi, we have python 3 installed and working correctly when the $PATH and $LIBPATH are set. However, as I want to use python for running Ansible against the LPAR .bashrc and .profile can’t be used. Ansible uses SSH remote commands to work, the equiv of:- ssh winmvs2c.hursley.ibm.com ‘python --version’ How can I update USS so that python 3 is available for all users without relying on .bashrc or .profile and will work with non-interactive SSH sessions? Cheers, Michael Baylis IBM Senior Software Engineer - CICS TS

Git 2.3.5 for z/OS has been released for general availability. It has not yet appeared on Rocket’s public download page but you can access it and its prerequisite installs via these links: README.ZOS Release notes for Git 2.3.5 for zOS.pdf git 2.3.5 bash 4.3 perl 5.24 unzip 6.0 gzip 1.6