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Dear CustomersWe will be releasing the next version of Rocket Open AppDev next week. Expect version currency updates for Less, Nano and more. Vulnerabilities fixes for Git, Curl, Vim and more. Also, new port for confluent-Kafka. More release details to come soon.Did you know: The mainframe market is projected to grow from $5.33B in 2025 to $7.14B by 2030 (6% CAGR), with hybrid cloud and open-source integration as key drivers.

The documentation for the 8.3 release of both the ZMF and ZMF Client Pack products is now available in HTML. as well as PDF, format. The HTML-formatted documentation provides access to enhanced online search functionality that improves the user experience when accessing the relevant manuals online. Both the HTML and PDF documentation can be accessed on the ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 and ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack 8.3 documentation websites. #ChangeManZMF#SupportTip#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs

Hello users of our z/OS open-source ports, I am pleased to announce the release of Rocket Open AppDev for Z v2.0.14. This release includes ports of three new tools, Netcat, Patch, and Postfix, and version currency updates for cURL, Grep, Less, Mktemp, Nano, OpenSSL, PHP, Sudo, and Pytest, as well as an extensive list of security fixes and other fixes for many other ports. For customers on a support contract, these latest builds are already available via conda or SMP/E. For users not on a support contract, these builds will be made available on our public conda channel server on April 20th, 2026. Version currency updates: Curl 8.16.0  Grep 3.12  Less 679  Mktemp 1.8  Nano 8.5  OpenSSL 3.5.4  PHP 8.3.23  Sudo 1.9.17p2  Pytest 8.4.1 New supported tool: Netcat 1.229  Patch 2.8  Postfix 3.10.4  CVEs published against earlier versions and resolved by V2.0.13: Curl CVE-2025-5399, CVE-2025-9086, CVE-2025-10148 fixes  Git CVE-2025-48384 fix  OpenSSL CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9231, CVE-2025-9232 f

There’s one day left in our virtual user group. Recordings from Days 1 and 2 are now available, and the final live session is coming up Thursday, Nov 20 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Day 1 — Thurs, Nov 6: Product Review & Roadmap Deep dive into ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Patch 1 (8.3.1) enhancements and an exclusive preview of 8.3 Patch 2 (8.3.2), targeted for mid‑Q1 2026. Watch the recording. Day 2 — Thurs, Nov 13: Customer Spotlights Real-world experiences, challenges, successes, and practical insights from two customers. Watch the recording. Last day — Thurs, Nov 20 at 11:00 a.m. EST: Open Forum — The Future of ZMF An open discussion on evolving mainframe needs: Git integration, VS Code, DevOps, and more. Bring your questions and ideas to help shape the roadmap. Register here.Watch the recordings and join us for the live open forum next week— we’d love your input.Thanks for being part of the ChangeMan ZMF community — we look forward to hearing your thoughts and continuing the conversation. 

Hello ChangeMan ZMF Community, It has been a longer process than we anticipated, but we now have the Ideas (Enhancements) portal available. This is a different portal than what we had under Micro Focus and Open Text and as such the former Ideas needed to be migrated from the prior portal to new portal that Rocket Software uses. Unfortunately, many of userids attached to the Ideas were not migrated. When possible, the original author's userid were appended to the description. Also, because the Ideas portal is different from the ChangeMan ZMF Community Forum it will require a new registration and it's a different link: Rocket Software Customer Ideas Portal We have been able to add a link from the ChangeMan ZMF Community Forum page on the right-hand panel (Ideas and Enhancements), which will bring you to the new Rocket Ideas Portal for ChangeMan ZMF. Our apologies to all our customers and users, as this has been a long process. We thank you for your patience as we worked through the proce

Hi, Upgraded to bash 5.2 and now some of our users encounter a S0C4 abend in their TSO session when invoking OMVS command to enter their (bash) shell environment in z/OS USS. See the following in the SVC dump of the S0C4; ASID(X'01BD') 21051A86. AREA(Subpool251Key08)+1BFA86 IN EXTENDED PRIVATE ASID(X'01BD') 21051A86. SPECIALNAME+1BFA86 IN EXTENDED PRIVATE +0000 61A58199 61999683 9285A361 82899561 | /var/rocket/bin/ | +0010 8281A288 | bash | Any ideas of possible root cause would be appreciated. thanks------------------------------Alfred SauSystems ProgrammerBNY MellonJersey City NJ US------------------------------

Join us for a three-part virtual webinar series coming up on November 6,13, and 20th. Attend all three or choose the topics that are most relevant to you.Here’s the lineup:Day 1: Thursday, November 6, 11:00 a.m. EST – Product Review & Roadmap Introductory message from Jeff Boatright, VP of Software Development An in-depth look at the latest enhancements in ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Patch 1 (8.3.1) and an exclusive preview of 8.3 Patch 2 (8.3.2), targeted for mid-Q1 2026 Day 2: Thursday, November 13, 11:00 a.m. EST – Customer Spotlights Opening remarks by Edward Marootian, VP of Product Management Hear directly from your peers as two customers share real-world experiences, challenges, and successes with ChangeMan ZMF, plus practical insights and innovative use cases Day 3: Thursday, November 20, 11:00 a.m. EST – Open Forum: The Future of ZMF Opening remarks by Tim Willging, Chief Technology Officer An open discussion on the evolving needs of the mainframe community, including Git integ

Hi, I have successfully connected to mainframe via ZOWE explorer /CLI. We are now in the process of connecting to changeman via ZMF explorer & CLI.    -While I am getting no errors on the ZMF explorer, it still remains blank.    -Is there a resource to download the ZMF CLI plugin as our system does not allow installation via CLI. We need a physical .  Thanks, Alan ------------------------------Alan MartinData EngineerRocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello, Is there a way of downloading the vsix file for the ZMF-CLI pluginDue to network restriction I'm unable to use the command "npm install -g @rocketsoftware/zmf-cli-plugin" Thank you Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello All I was wondering if it would be possible to add the requestorPhone to the panel CMNLIST0 as a criteria fieldThe reason is, via the global admin this field can be assigned another meaning (which we did, at our shop this has a value indicating the type of material in the package). As the field can be adjusted we were wondering if it would be possible to through the interface have this field available to narrow down a list of packages based on that field The XML service Package,Gen_prms,Search supports it so I hope the investment should not be that high ? :-) Thank you Best regards Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello maybe someone can help, I have a changeman application that in the past has installed to a remote site but now the requirement is to only install on the same dev box that Changeman is running on. So i removed the remote site so nobody can add that site when creating a package and i added a local site with a dummy library defined so then it would only do the baseline process. However the 10 job fails(sortof there is no bad rc) with the following error message which causes the 11 job to fail. SYSIN: YON1000455 10 NOD=DUMMY                                  PACKAGE NOT DISTRIBUTED AT ALL REMOTE SITES YON1000455          STATUS NOT CHANGED TO "DIS"                 YON1000455          SYSIN: YON1000455 05 NOD=PICM.CP000000.YON1.#000455K.X.DUMMY    SYSIN: YON1000455 05 SUB=YON11155   has anybody encountered this ? when the package is created there is only one site in the package request.   thanks.                               ------------------------------Steven NauHsbc Software Devel

We're testing GitZMF and it works in the right direction of adding "new protocols" to access mainframe sources. It's clear how to use it while developing from VSCode or similar. We would like also to use it when we've to orchestrate processes like source scanning, security scanning and so on. It would be great to use the git protocol instead of setting up FTP or custom scripts. At the moment of course we cannot use it because the "prerequisite" is creating a ChangeMan package on the mainframe and a gitZMF pull would work from the package. Can you think of developing something in the GitZMF for getting sources from the baseline maybe for a full application + type key? We know that there is a big gap between a non-mainframe project (where all the sources are "pulled" for working) and a mainframe project where we usually take a specific subset (the package) but still we would also need a way to "pull" the full application... Thank you   ------------------------------Stefano AntoniazziBC

Hi, I've upgraded my VSCode and ZMF Explorer extension and I've a problem when starting the Extension. My VSCode is now: Version: 1.103.1Commit: 360a4e4fd251bfce169a4ddf857c7d25d1ad40daDate: 2025-08-12T16:25:40.542ZBrowser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.103.1 Chrome/138.0.7204.100 Electron/37.2.3 Safari/537.36 My ZMF Explorer extension is: Id: RocketSoftware.zmfexplorerDescription: VS Code extension that enables editing of ChangeMan ZMF resourcesVersion: 2.0.8Publisher: Rocket Software Inc.VS Marketplace Link: ZMF Explorer - Visual Studio Marketplace Visualstudio remove preview ZMF Explorer - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - VS Code extension that enables editing of ChangeMan ZMF resources View this on Visualstudio > I've a pretty simple user settings.json where values related to zmfexplorer are     "zmfexplorer.local.folder": "C:\\\\Users\\\\ris0192\\\\changeman",

Hello We are currently running Git 2.14.4 on z/OS 3.1. We plan to migrate to the z17 hardware and would like to know if there are any required actions to take for this product, such as upgrading or applying any fixes to tolerate the z17s.   Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated. Thank you Kind Regards, Mathew.

Hello Everyone! We found that in version 8.2 path 7, HLLX integration in the checkin, build, recompile, and relink functionalities does not communicate with XML in terms of consistency and variable content modification.When HLLX is called from the ISP or client pack panels, it returns an error message, but when called via XML, it does not return an error as expected. Could you please inform if there is an enhancement planned for this item?------------------------------Mari SekineBanco Bradesco S/ASão Paulo BR------------------------------

Hello We have a heavy customization on the component change description Would it be possible to foresee HLLX entries on this panel, this in function of the ZMF Client Pack and the ZMF Explorer Best regards Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello all,On VSCODE/ ZMF Explorer, I'm trying to do the parametrization in order to be able to expand/see the INCLUDES and COPY's.For the one's that are on BASELINE I can see them because I've done the parametrization on the zapp.yaml file (the name do not change). But for those that are only inside the Package, VSCODE/ZMF Explorer is not able to find them.Can someone help me with the parametrization ?Thank you in advance,Joao------------------------------Joao CarvalhoSystems EngineerSILCA------------------------------

Hello, It is probably a stupid question, but you can trigger a build in VS Code, when doing so, there are two messages a) compname build submission in progress. Job number pending.. b) compname jobname JOBnnnnn submitted Is there a way to get a message back that the job finished? Thank you Best regards Johan------------------------------Johan JacobEuroclearBrussels BE------------------------------

Hello We are currently running cURL 7.77.0 on z/OS 3.1. We plan to migrate to the z17 hardware and would like to know if there are any required actions to take for this product, such as upgrading or applying any fixes to tolerate the z17s.   Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated. Thank you Kind Regards, Eghosa

Hi everyone! As we wrap up the month, I wanted to check in and see how you’re all doing. We’ve had plenty of great conversations here throughout July. Here are a few highlights: ChangeMan ZMF 8.3.2 : fixes and enhancements CM APIs Component type report In case you missed it, our most recent webinar is now available to watch on demand. The team walks you through: A hands-on demo integrating Rocket® ChangeMan® ZMF with Git and VSCode.  How ChangeMan ZMF enables developers to use their preferred environments — whether traditional TSO/ISPF or modern VSCode with Git.  How ChangeMan ZMF bridges the gap between your team’s preferred tooling and today’s collaborative development environments, ensuring no team member is left behind Feel free to catch up any time here. Thanks for being an active part of the community. If you have any topics you’d like to see next month, please let me know!------------------------------Martyna UleviciuteCustomer Community Managermuleviciut

Is anyone using the CM APIs? My specific question is:  I can successfully call the component/build API to compile/build like-src components. What API do I call to stage non-source components (comparable to ST in the green screens)   ?------------------------------Jim HaworthTechnology EngineerNationwide Mutual Insurance Company------------------------------

An engineer is trying to use the git connector with ChangeMan ZMF/ERO version 8.3.0.   We are using the previous version of the ZMF zowe cli (2.0.4) because of bug in latest version.   The engineer is able to clone the ChangeMan package, they edit source using git.  They commit changes.  No change is made in ChangeMan package.   Engineer pushs the changes and no change is made in ChangeMan package.------------------------------Lisa BrewerSenior System Software EngineerThe Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyMilwaukee WI US------------------------------

I'm pleased to share that we have released Rocket Utility Pack for Zowe 1.5 earlier this month, delivering several key enhancements across our tools and services: zFM (z/OS File Manager) is now fully compatible with v3. Key updates include: Angular upgrade from v12 to v18, bringing template changes and other improvements. Changes to Webpack, file tree functionality, and Prime components. USS Process Manager has also been upgraded to support v3, featuring: Angular upgrade to v18, with enhanced templates and other improvements. Updates to Webpack, Prime components, and improved API checks across various UI elements. Additionally, we've rolled out support for 64-bit dataservice. Rocket® Support for Zowe provides the extra protection you need to modernize mainframe development with secure, supported, open-source software. ------------------------------Paul Wade B.Sc. Director, Product ManagementRocket Software ------------------------------

Not sure if this is the right forum for this.  We recently started using the Data Virtualization Driver v3.1 and are getting a stack overflow that crashes our application every 10 minutes or so in production.  After some research I determined it's due to parameterized queries.  The parameter info is being cached by the driver in the connection pool until it reaches some limit and crashes with a stack overflow error.  If I turn off connection pooling, or hard-code the values into the query instead of properly parameterizing it, it stops crashing.  But I'd rather not do those things if I can help it.  I can easily recreate the error in our lower environments by loading up a query that parameterizes 200 parameters, and then setting it to run 100 times in sequence.  Our production users aren't plugging in that many parameters, but are hitting the cache limit through sheer volume of queries instead. Are there any connection string settings or driver sett

Hello Community, Our customer is using GIT for his Softwarerepository on z/OS. We have changed from z/OS 2.5 to z/OS 3.1 last week and changed also the  GIT Version from 2.26.2-78 to 2.41.0-4. Now we get a lot of RACF messages like follows and the result is not as expected: ICH408I USER(USSGIT  ) GROUP(UITUVERF) NAME(USSGIT -TECHN. USER ).git/objects/pack/pack-a4854ba0aa6a6333d597deea4f53b5f24d64e030.pack                                                              CL(FSOBJ   ) FID(C8E4D6D4F0F106C60000000140D9B4F3)                    INSUFFICIENT AUTHORITY TO UTIME                                      ACCESS INTENT(-W-)  ACCESS ALLOWED(OWNER      R--)                  EFFECTIVE UID(0013900119)  EFFECTIVE GID(0013900004)                The file is created with permission 444 and owner is USSGIT. We tried to solve the problem by setting default file ACL for the directory, but GIT seems to ignore this! Any suggestions! Many Thanks in advance!------------------------------Jurgen Hildebra