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Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: karlacopeI am interested in finding out if anyone has customized ChangeMan ZMF to take advantage of the COBOL compiler options 'CICS' and 'SQL.' This is the recommended method rather than running separate pre-compile steps. It seems like a good idea but I’m not sure the customization effort would be worth it. Has anyone done this?Posted 3/19/2008 7:50 AM lbjergesAbout threee years ago we implemented the DB2 coprocessor in Changeman COBOL compiles in a test environment.Our main goal at the time was to reduce the number of steps and file I/O in the Cobol stage and also draw benefits for the developers doing interactive debug (nicer listings).At that point in time however the feature was not very mature and required a lt of PTFs in the IBM products.We finally got it to work however and found out that the elapsed time and excps actually was higher than doing a stand-alone pre-compile. The listing was OK however.The reason that we

Question posted 4/13/09 by John WrenDetails:We are looking at implementing CA-JCLCheck under Changeman. At first it appeared to be simple. However, we quickly learned that we need to consider programs, control card updates, cataloged procedures, etc. in the package along with the JCL or in a participating package. How do we include these components that are referenced in the jcl when they are not yet in baseline?Do we make it simple by requiring users to baseline programs, control cards and cataloged procedures prior to staging a JCL component? Thank you for your time,John Wren#oldforumpost#post57129804a9#ChangeManZMF

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: ChangeMan 5.2.6 and Z/OS 1.7 (1 of 5), Read 189 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Joseph Blue joseph.a.blue@jpmchase.comDate: Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:52 AMDoes anyone have any experience with ChangeMan 5.2.6 and Z/OS 1.6 or higher.We still have an old subsystem running ChangeMan 5.26 and we are going to be updating our operating system to Z/OS 1.7 in the next few months.We are converting the remaining apps to our new subsystem (5.5.1) but will not finish in time.Topic: ChangeMan 5.2.6 and Z/OS 1.7 (2 of 5), Read 177 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Janet Spears duane.a.wood@us.hsbc.comDate: Friday, February 10, 2006 07:49 AMHi,We have upgraded to OS/1.6, but are working with V5.36. There is a known bug with Audit that may want to check into... See Case 5065445Fix module from Serena for work around of IBM bug caused when upgrading to OS/1.6. Case #5065445 Abend in Audit IEWFBDAT FECAfix module CMNBINDFJanet Spears, HSBCTopic: Cha

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadmin Topic: XML Service to delete component from package (1 of 3), Read 145 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Jan Wessel jan.wessel@atosorigin.comDate: Friday, January 06, 2006 02:30 AMWe are now able to checkin a component to a package using XML.Next thing is we want to delete a checked in component from a package.We have not found a XML-service to do that.Has anyone an idea how to accomplish this?Thanks in advanceJanTopic: XML Service to delete component from package (2 of 3), Read 116 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Ingo Pieper ingo.pieper@provinzial.comDate: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 04:48 AMDear Jan,you can usethis XML:service name="CMPONENT"scope name="PKG_COMP"message name="DELETE"If you can uses "Yellow" Services. If not, ask youe CHM-Consultant or write an email (ingo.pieper@provinzial.com)with best regardsIngo PieperTopic: XML Service to delete component from package (3 of 3), Read 136 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Jan Wessel jan.wessel@atosori

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: davidparkerApplications are often deployed across multiple plaforms, that span both distributed and mainframe environments. At the same time, enterprises often have a clear differentiation that separates the mainframe data center and the distributed environment. Is it important to federate/integrate your mainframe change management solutions across environments? Why? What challenges does this raise?Posted 5/21/2007 12:53 PM#post23774a259e#oldforumpost#ChangeManZMF

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: PROJCL - implementing into Changeman ZMF (1 of 2), Read 133 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Paul Cooney cooney.paul@aaa-calif.comDate: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:06 AMHello:New to the board. We want to add ProJCL 2.60E processing to our ChangeMan ZMF 5.3.3 environment. Anyone out there doing this already?Topic: PROJCL - implementing into Changeman ZMF (2 of 2), Read 70 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Sandy Karlin Sandra.Karlin@gwl.comDate: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:46 AMI added this for 4.1.6, but have not carried it into later releases as the user community changed their plans about invoking ProJCL within Changeman.You may already know the following:1) ProJCL ships Changeman skeletons for ProJCL in it's SAMPLIB (SKELS are CMN$$JCP, CMN$$PRP, CMN$$SCP)2) The ProJCL Administration Guide and Installation Guide list the samplib members.3) The ProJCL Reference Manual has step by step directions for implementing the ProJCL func

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: ChangeMan ZMF (v5.36) interface with GSD (1 of 3), Read 117 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Janet Spears duane.a.wood@us.hsbc.comDate: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:02 AMDear fellow ChangeMan Administrators,We have an new initiative at HSBC to create a Change Man interface with our incident/change tracking system, Computer Associate's Unicenter ServicePlus Service Desk (or GSD - Global Service Desk). The initiative has been mandated by our internal auditing department. The goal is to be able to associate ChangeMan packages with valid/approved Change/Incident/Problem tickets created in GSD. This initiative is one of the many changes that HSBC is putting in place in order to assure Sarbanes Oxley compliance.If anyone has a need for a similar interface or has any ideas that I could follow up on, please let me know.thank you!Janet SpearsTopic: ChangeMan ZMF (v5.36) interface with GSD (2 of 3), Read 67 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Rick

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: JAVA and Mainframe (1 of 2), Read 98 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Richard Shostak rshostak@dtcc.comDate: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 07:44 AMIs anyone using JAVA in ChangeMan ZMF. Serena says they do not support it, but we have customized ChangeMan for C (creating objects, side decks, DLLs)so perhaps there is a way to incorporate JAVA into ChangeMan.Topic: JAVA and Mainframe (2 of 2), Read 81 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Beth Tuttle beth.tuttle@nscorp.comDate: Monday, July 03, 2006 07:46 AMWe are heading in this direction too, probably in 6 months. I'm going to keep an eye on this topic.#oldforumpost#ChangeManZMF#postc9187512cf

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: mikeokeefehi all. Working at a site that wants to trap mainframe alerts, particularly job abends, and generate a Help Desk ticket in TeamTrack. Assuming the mechanism into TeamTrack (big assumption, I know), how would one generate that email from the MF side? I am guessing something out of the job scheduler.Thanks!MikePosted 6/4/2007 9:03 AM bennywestaedtThere are several possibilities to enable messaging for the mainframe.1. monitoring tools like patrol can send emails2. Some jobscheduling tools provide follow-up of submitted jobs3. an extra step at the end of your jcl that checks the jcl and send an email.So depending on your mainframe environment and available tools there are numerous ways to create and send emails from the mainframe.The Teamtrack side can capture easily the mails that are being send to a particular mailbox and create incidents for it.Regards,BennyPosted 6/5/2007 4:14 AM #oldforumpost#ChangeManZMF#post37e

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: aristippusI'm involved in a migration from a custom NOMAD-written change control system to ChangeMan and am looking for good resources to learn more prior to engaging the various application managers I'll be working with.I'm very technical but the hardware I work with is usually smaller and the development libraries are either .NET or Java...in other words, I'm not scared of mainframes but haven't had a lot of exposure.I'm in project management and without comment on whether or not a newbie should be corralling the moving parts of such an effort, I'm looking to bone up my own knowledge prior to bringing the heavy hitters into a room together.If anyone has specific experience (or even better, work plans I can tailor) with migrating to ChangeMan highlighting major pain / worry points or things you wished you'd have considered earlier in the process than you did, I'd certainly appreciate it.My weekend will be sundry whitepapers, s

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Delayed Deployment (1 of 2), Read 73 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Catherine Brien catherine.t.brien@aib.ieDate: Friday, October 27, 2006 04:30 AMHi,new user.We have a customer who would like to look at delayed deployment using changeman. Ie. He installs a load module, once that is successful in production he would then like to distribute this to next channel, i.e. will sit on the same load library but will have different name.So far we think the only way to do this is outside changeman, ie just a copy and name change.We cannot use the promotion facility due to SOX constraints.Has anyone managed to do anything similar using changeman?Thanks,LindaTopic: Delayed Deployment (2 of 2), Read 69 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Gary How gary.how@sears.caDate: Friday, November 10, 2006 08:31 AMHi Linda,How about this...For the 'next channel', set up a new application. Stage the load module from the original application into the new applica

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: DB2 Bind to 2 Subsystems Simultaneously (1 of 2), Read 53 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Bill Raleigh wraleigh@agfinance.comDate: Friday, February 02, 2007 07:58 AMDoes anyone have Change Man binding to multiple DB2 subsystems at install time? We have 2 production DB2 subsystems and some programs need to be bound to both subsystems or the user wants to select which DB2 subsystem that their program will bind to at install time. Any info will be greatly appreciated.BillTopic: DB2 Bind to 2 Subsystems Simultaneously (2 of 2), Read 57 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Lynn West lwest@cds.caDate: Friday, February 02, 2007 08:28 AMWe investigated the same opportunity in the past, and were told by Serena it may require consulting services support. Customizing cmndb2pl related skels to support multiple DB2 subsystems would definitely be a benefit and avoid manual work arounds. Please keep the forum advised.#postb1242b4a9a#oldforumpost#Change

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Upgrade to OS/1.8 w/Cman v5.36 or v5.6 (1 of 3), Read 108 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Janet Spears duane.a.wood@us.hsbc.comDate: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:44 AMHi,Is anyone running either ChangeMan ZMF v5.36 or V5.6 with OS/1.8? Our systems guys are planning to begin upgrading our operating systems and I am looking for any known issues.thanks in advance for your help,Janet SpearsTopic: Upgrade to OS/1.8 w/Cman v5.36 or v5.6 (2 of 3), Read 56 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Miguel Nevarez Miguel.Nevarez@gmacinsurance.comDate: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 07:08 AMI recommend you look at the following Solution ID's in Serena's Knowledge Base:1134750005911053150016465003680147735001651500528150034855002867We're upgrading to OS/1.7 pretty soon.Take CareTopic: Upgrade to OS/1.8 w/Cman v5.36 or v5.6 (3 of 3), Read 57 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Larry Oehler lo8262@ATT.COMDate: Friday, March 02, 2007 08:32 PMWe are running ChangeMan 5.5.3 (P an

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: lbjergesHi.I read the document "Converting Librarian to ZMF" and have three comments and a question.The comments:1) In the GPO-job I added the line:-OPT EXEC(R),NOSEPlike:...-OPT GPO-OPT EXEC(R),NOSEP-SEL LVLS= n,ARC=-00n...The EXEC(R) option will effectively overwrite any previous member versions on the work dataset so I'll always get the latest version.2) Why not just execute the CMNUPDAT utility always instead of doing the IEBCOPY from work to base-0 the first time?3) I wrote a Rexx tho generate the SYSIN file to CMNUPDAT:################################parse upper arg dsname /* Work dataset */memvar = ""m = 0address ISPEXEC "LMINIT DATAID(MEMID) DATASET('"dsname"')"address ISPEXEC "LMOPEN DATAID("memid") OPTION(INPUT) LRECL(DLND)"address ISPEXEC "LMMLIST DATAID("memid") OPTION(LIST) MEMBER(MEMVAR)"rcode = rcdo while rcode = 0m = m 1member.m = strip(memvar)address ISPEXEC "LMMLIST DATAID("memid") OPTION(LIST) MEMBER(MEMVAR

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Promote after Baseline (1 of 4), Read 46 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Steve King StevenR.King@Caremark.comDate: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 08:10 AMOriginally Posted 4-Apr-2007 08:08Can a ChangeMan package be promoted after it has been 'baselined'? is there any option or customization for this? Do you know of any customers who do this? We may be looking into this option in the future.....The only three things that I could think of was A) Create new packages with the same components in as the "BAS" packages; and then promote to the post-prod environment; or B: When ChangeMan is down, change the status on the "BAS" packages to 'FRZ' on the package master to allow for the promote to this environment; and then change back to "BAS", but this option sounds dangerous; or C) Add more steps to the CMN30 install skel to do the promote, but have the job sit in SDSF on hold until the post prod move is ready to go.Topic: Promote aft

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Sepatate Dev and Prod ChangeMan systems (1 of 2), Read 73 timesConf: ZMFFrom: David Sealey david.sealey@btgroup.co.zaDate: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:39 PMWe currently run in an ALL environment, but consideration is being given to creating a separate DP environment for security and efficiency of processing.Any opinions on using the DP environment? What about the conversion effort? How does a test environment access prod programs after clean up during promote/install?Regards,Dave SealeyTopic: Sepatate Dev and Prod ChangeMan systems (2 of 2), Read 62 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Miguel Nevarez Miguel.Nevarez@gmacinsurance.comDate: Monday, March 05, 2007 08:48 AMYou can refer to Serena KnowledgeBase Solution ID: 689 which explains how to Switch from a ALL Site to a DP Site.Hope this helps.#oldforumpost#ChangeManZMF#post5ffeee84fc

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: davidparkerAgile development methodologies are rapidly gaining ground in distributed applications development environments, but less so for mainframe teams. What is preventing your mainframe shop from adopting Agile?Posted 5/21/2007 12:56 PM eburkeDavid - in many ways the mainframe developers are in a much better position to implement agile. The concepts of interative development and tools and process displine around release management in the mainframe environment makes iterations and 'shippable code' at the end of each sprint a real possiblility. During a recent Certified Scrum Master training course I attended, we had a mainframe application manager in the class that had already implemented scrum and was releasing to prodution at the end of every two week sprint.The key is process displine and tools to release shippable code on a 2-4 week basis (don't look now, but the mainframe guys have been doing this for a long time!)Po

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: SER0820E No applications with valid licenses; Shut (1 of 2), Read 45 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Carlos Canales ccanales@cl.ibm.comDate: Friday, February 23, 2007 11:11 AMPlease I need a help. I installed ChangeMan ZMF v5.6.0, and when I start the Sernet, I receive message:SER0820E No applications with valid licenses; Shutting downSER0999I SerNet server "A" termination complete, RC=16I have experience working with ChangeMan v4.1.6My email is ccanales@cl.ibm.comThanks in advanceCarlos CanalesChileTopic: SER0820E No applications with valid licenses; Shut (2 of 2), Read 52 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Miguel Nevarez Miguel.Nevarez@gmacinsurance.comDate: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 07:02 AMI haven't upgraded to V 5.6.0 yet, but I recommend you read "SER10TY USERS GUIDE" which tell's you how to validate your licenses. Once this is done, you shouldn't have any problems bring up ChangeMan.Take Care and Good Luck,Miguel NevarezMiguel.

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: davidparkerGreetings Community!We're seeing an increased interest in our mainframe user community for zSeries zIIP, zAAP, and IFL specialty processor engines. The promise of these engines is that they help you take better advantage of what you already have, increasing the throughput of a machine by offloading capacity from the main CPU.The growing importance of these engines is a clear indicator of the growing importance of Linux and Java environments on the mainframe.Have you implemented these specialty processor enginers, and if so, are they paying the dividends you had expected? What are some of the challenges are you facing?#oldforumpost#ChangeManZMF#post0ab6a3e4e6

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: sujaprakashConsidering Configuration Audit to be one of the four main functions of Configuration Management , I personally feel that the Audit feature, if properly explored and used with Changeman ZMF, can go a long way in implementing Physical Configuration Audit.As far as the Functional Configuration Audit is concerned, it is more to make sure that a functional system verification has been completed, which can be implemented by slightly customizing approvals, to make sure that Testing at the appropriate level has been completed.The audit report can be used to report on the release and prepare release notes too about the mainframe configuration going live.Many shops just use audit as a formality to initiate freeze. Are we using audit to its full potential?#oldforumpost#ChangeManZMF#post2dbff2dc6b

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: bas lib search order changes after admin update. (1 of 2), Read 79 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Rick Behee Richard.Behee@commercebank.comDate: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 03:28 PMHas any one had issues in v552 with the compile process after changing or adding library types to an application. Currently when i select or view an application baseline the search order changes in cmn$$syc.Topic: bas lib search order changes after admin update. (2 of 2), Read 49 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Sandy Karlin Sandra.Karlin@gwl.comDate: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 01:03 PMWe just ran into the same issue, but with only one of many applications. To make a long story short, specifying sequence numbers for the library-type definitions in both Global and Application Administration should solve the problem. The sequence numbers apply to like-source, like-copy, and like-load library types. Starting in 5.5.1 or 5.5.2, if SEQ NO. is not specified, the

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Invoking Rexx program from exits (1 of 2), Read 88 timesConf: ZMFFrom: AnonymousDate: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:48 AMWe have written some exits that call Rexx programs via the ISPEXEC interface. These Rexx programs use ISPF and TSO services and they work fine when they are invoked from the ChangeMan ISPF interface.However, they do not work when they are invoked from XML services. Under this situation, the exits run in the started task address space instead of the user's TSO address space. I believe it has something to do with the ISPF environment being not available in the STC address space.Has anyone done this? Please share if you do. Thanks.PatrickTopic: Invoking Rexx program from exits (2 of 2), Read 90 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Janet Spears duane.a.wood@us.hsbc.comDate: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 05:35 AMHi Patrick,We have played around with this using SERXMLBC, called from a Panel Exit during Approvals and

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: ZMF Automatic demotion at Baseline (1 of 2), Read 46 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Everett Harper everett.harper@worldspan.comDate: Thursday, April 12, 2007 08:18 AMI am running ZMF V553, is there any way to stop the automatic demotion of packages at baseline time by CMN application? As a last resort can it be done by hardcoding each application ID in the skels?ThanksEverettTopic: ZMF Automatic demotion at Baseline (2 of 2), Read 19 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Glenn Dove gdove@jasmattcorp.comDate: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 05:54 AM Hey Everett,Just customize your baseline ripple process (CMNINLPM) to exclude the cleanup based on the applications you don't want the cleanup to happen for. Check the application, set a flag and then have the cleanup happen based on the flag being set to yes or no. You might even want to set up a separate skel just to check the application and set the flag and imbed that. It will keep CMNINLPM cleaner

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Cleanup of Obsolete Pkgs (1 of 2), Read 140 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Janet Spears duane.a.wood@us.hsbc.comDate: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 08:35 AMHi,Would anyone happen to have a process in place that you wouldn't mind sharing that will:- ID and report on pkgs past their install date- a process to email the owner of the pkgs identified- an automatic method for deleting the old pkgsThis is on my list of things to do this year and it is a task that I have never tackled at any of the Cman sites where I have worked.Any assistance you can provide would be much appreciated.thanks,JanetTopic: Cleanup of Obsolete Pkgs (2 of 2), Read 131 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Rick Behee Richard.Behee@commercebank.comDate: Friday, May 12, 2006 06:56 AMJanet, I have modified cmnsas10 vendor SAS code. I added some ODS SAS code that will send the reports to a predefined intranet site. The application managers will review the site for any packages

Discussion posted 3/28/08 by Serenity ThompsonDetails: supportadminTopic: Suppress messages in TOP SECRET (1 of 2), Read 42 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Sam Garza Sam.garza@schwab.comDate: Thursday, October 19, 2006 04:00 PMWe are a ZMF 5.5.2 shop. Users without Global admin authority are generating error messages to the TOP SECRET log because they do not have admin, global admin, local admin rights. Is there any way to suppress these messages?Topic: Suppress messages in TOP SECRET (2 of 2), Read 8 timesConf: ZMFFrom: Sandy Karlin Sandra.Karlin@gwl.comDate: Thursday, May 24, 2007 01:30 PMThough we have CA/ACF2, we ran into the same problem. The solution is to turn off security violation logging in SERLCSEC. The line in the source code after turning off the logging looks like this:#postb1c5b54823#ChangeManZMF#oldforumpost