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We're using latest version of ZMF Explorer for VS Code. We would like to release what we've set up till now to users, but we've still some open points. We've seen that it's "too easy" for the VS Code user to navigate through a full list of all baselined sources of a specific application (we may have applications with 10,000  sources...) Same with the list of all packages. I know that it's possible to set up a filter but I don't know if I may define a "default" filter to be distributed to all users so that they would not need to set it up manually. I would also like to be able to filter packages based on their status and not only on their name (in VS Code developers are more interested in DEV status packages than in BAS packages....). Releasing to some users the VS Code ZMF Explorer just made Tomcat exposing ChangeMan REST API to dump a java core because of "too much memory" requested. And this was caused simply by somebody navigating  through baselines and packages without se

Hi, Is it possible to run miniconda-zos-<X.Y>-<yyyy-mm-dd>.run in "silent mode" (with a responsefile or something similar)? /Njål------------------------------Njaal SlettenDNBBergen NO------------------------------

One reasonably common issue that arises, which can result in a multitude of different errors, relates to JCL comment continuations being overlooked. Take for example the following JCL that allocates ISPF panel and messages library concatenations ISPPLIB and ISPMLIB, respectively: Now look at the output created when the job is executed. First the JESJCL output file: And this in JESYSMSG: Note that: a) unlike all other datasets in the ISPPLIB and ISPMLIB concatenations, dataset CMNSUP.INTL.CMN830.PANELS is not preceded by a number in the JESJCL output. b) the JESYSMSG output file shows only one dataset being allocated and released under the ISPPLIB DD statement, unlike ISPMLIB which shows all three datasets being allocated/released. This behaviour occurs because the comment starting in column 55 of the first ISPPLIB DD statement continues into column 72, which is also non-blank. This acts as a comment continuation statement that effectively makes the following card a comment, too, reg

I assume Git has been tested on a z/OS 3.1 system but I am having an issue with performing "git add ." and the only difference I can find is that I'm attempting to do it on a z/OS 3.1 system. This is what I get when issuing git add . fatal: can't add "zGIT-DS-Attributes": file is tagged, set corresponding zos-working-tree-encoding attribute or reset file tag This is correct, the file is tagged IBM-1047 as seen here: $ ls -lT                                                                                    total 2                                                                                                         drwxr-xr-x   2 AUZZ04S  #KYNDRYL       0 Apr 30 00:00 Z-GIT             t IBM-1047    T=on  -rw-------   1 AUZZ04S  #KYNDRYL      23 Apr 30 00:00 zGIT-DS-Attributes The repository does have a attributes defined as follows: $ cat .git/info/attributes | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047               #                                                                         # Def

Hi.  I have an old version of unzip that I downloaded years ago.  I'm working with a file now and when trying to unzip it I get the error messages:Archive:  Bill.zip                                                      skipping: DT052024.txt            need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)    skipping: DM052024.txt            need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)I was hoping to download a newer version of unzip, but I'm having trouble understanding the miniconda process.  I do not have access to the internet from my z/OS lpars, so, is it possible to get a repo (or the unzip package) downloaded locally?thanks, Dan------------------------------Dan SmithCrc RepresentativeState Farm Insurance CompanyBloomington IL US------------------------------

Hello, I wanted to ask if there is a possibility to use the zmf-explorer Extension in VS-Code and parallel the zowe-explorer.Zowe Profiles use a tokenValue, while ZMF Profiles use User and Password. I tried to make nested profiles, which works half. If I logon with authentication token in zowe, i am able to connect, but if I then try to logon in zmf, it asks the base profile username and password, and add it afterwards to the baseprofile, even though I didn't specify that the base profile should use username and password, instead only a tokenvalue.In the Profile itself I added "secure: ["user", "password"]" but it asks me nevertheless. in the CLI I can execute commands, but I don't get any answer back: PS S:\\> zowe zmf get pg PS S:\\>in the CLI there is the workaround to create a second baseprofile and specify every time which baseProfile to use, which works, but is't the solution I'd like to use long term.{ "$schema": "./zowe.schema.json", "profiles": {

Do you have an example of HTH  zFS resident HTML component?    We are adding Java support to our ChangeMan ZMF environment. I would like to understand the HTH type.#ChangeManZMF

A new hotfix build of ChangeMan ZMF for Eclipse (ZMF4ECL) 8.3, ZMF4ECL 8.3.0 Hotfix 007 (build 691), is now available for customer use. This build resolves the following issues: OCTCR46A386001 - Unable to revert ZMF package in 'FRZ' status using ZMF4ECLOCTCR46A361002 - ‘SER0524E Requested File ENQ not available’ creating new zFS/HFS component This latest hotfix build is cumulative with earlier hotfix builds and therefore includes the fixes included in all of these, too. As per usual, we recommend customers either running or upgrading to ZMF4ECL 8.3 open a case with the Support team requesting a copy of the latest ZMF4ECL hotfix build.#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#ChangeManZMF#Announcement

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

Status: Waiting for VotesWe run housekeeping every night, so that only the latest 10 staging versions are kept for each package. There is no way of maintaining this by application. Ideally we would like to keep the latest 20 staging versions for some applications.#ZMF

Hello,  The Copybooks and Includes are downloaded but not displayed as available. Is there a setting in IBM Z Open Editor to be made, to be able to open the copybook? ZMF has the Option to download the Copybooks, and I get the message that they were being downloaded: But I still get the error message: what could I do to fix the issue?#ChangeManZMF#Copybookresolvement#VSCode#include#ZMFExplorer#COPYBOOKS#ZMF#VSCode

Hi,  I'm testing ChangeMan REST API functions from zmf plug in for zowe cli  using the sample from  Trigger DEMOTE outside the mainframe using Jenkins Pipeline  I've a problem with returned json. Just executing the command  zowe zmf get component -c "PYTCC001" -t "COB" -p "BKA 000435" --zmf-profile "zmfx" > K:/projectsout/mainframe/cmnrestsample/testhttp.json from a Windows Command line (Powershell, cmd, ...) I get a text file with many "dirt" chars. I've tried also a direct connection to Tomcat using only http port but nothing Changes. Returned json is something like this where expected json fields are surrounded by these wrong chars: Somebody has an idea where to investigate? Thanks. #problem#JSON#ChangeManZMF#CLI#REST#ZMF

PKIX refers to ‘Public Key Infrastructure (X.509)’ and errors referring to PKIX may be experienced in various java-based ZMF interfaces when attempting secure (i.e. SSL/AT-TLS) connection between entities/applications. For example, the following message may be reported when attempting a ZMF4ECL connection to a ZMF Server that has the ‘Connections Secured via TLS’ option specified: Connect Error: PKIX patch building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find Valid Certification path to requested target Or this type of error could be seen in the ZMFREST output file of a tomcat task when attempting to create a secure dialog with a Jenkins server: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: com.ibm.jsse2.util.j: PKIX path building failed: com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target As suggested by the text in the above messages, these PKIX errors indicate that the java environment cannot fin

Hello, We are able to trigger the demote process by using the Skeleton inside the mainframe without issue. However, application team would like We have a User that is looking to create a Jenkins pipeline that will be initiated by a Package Promote on ZMF. The pipeline will execute a test off-mainframe and if the results are bad, they wish to initiate a Package Demote from the same pipeline. We know how to post an event from the mainframe via skeletons, but how does this work in the other direction. We are looking for code examples to execute the Package Demote(or any REST service) from a Jenkins script. Thank you! David#Webservices#jenkins#ChangeManZMF

Hello, We have some problem with the ZMF Explorer plugin in VS-Code:some users see the "right click" create package, some others can't.The users which are unable to see the option to create a Package, can see the Package list itself. All those users of course are able to create packages from 3270 ISPF interface.This is what users should see. In the picture the user has the ability to see all the packages for application CM# but no package for application BKA.For some applications, some users can see the full list of the packages, some others (see the picture) will not see anything. Notice: the user that is not able to see BKA packages list is the ChangeMan administrator so RACF is for sure ok. We set up the debug level but we cannot see anything in zmfExplorer.log nor in the Tomcat started task nor in ChangeMan started task. Could it be something related to the UI in VS-Code? Is there a "debug" for the UI related to ZMF Explorer? Notice: no filter is used. When no packages are displa

ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 is the first release to ship all components in PDSE format. Releases prior to 8.3 shipped product libraries in PDS format. However, for a number of years hotfixes supplied for all releases have been shipped in PDSE format. This can lead to users encountering the following type of error when attempting to TSO RECEIVE a PDSE-formatted hotfix executable module (i.e. program object) directly into a PDS-formatted execution library: INMR060I RECEIVE command terminated. Output dataset unusable. + INMR158I A Program Library or member can only be received into a Program Library or an empty PDSE.*** To circumvent this issue users can either receive the hotfix directly into an existing PDSE or omit the target dataset entirely and allow the TSO RECEIVE command to allocate a new PDSE to host the new or updated component(s). The received program objects can then be copied to the required target PDS dataset using IBM utilities (e.g. ISPF option 3.3, IEBCOPY, etc.).#SupportTips/Knowl

We are trying to clone the GitHub repository in mainframe using Git Clone command. but facing 403 error while cloning. fatal: unable to access '

Trying to `git clone` from a repository on another z/OS system I get$git clone -v demnt15@stutvs2a:/u/demnt15/tmp/mytestCloning into 'mytest'...fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: ����fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedlywhere the characters are <<^ 88D0CCD6I have no idea why this happens. Any advice would be appreciated. If I try to clone from WSL in Windows I get the same error.------------------------------Manfred LotzKyndryl Deutschland GmbHKelsterbach DE------------------------------

Hi,  I have curl 8.4.0 with z/OS 2.4 and I am getting these errors: OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 On the first request if failed with insufficient randomness, which points to /dev/random and /dev/random not working correctly, which led me to find out CSF was not started and the SAF resources was not defined. We got past that, the User ID using Curl has READ access to the following CSFSERV profiles : CSNBRNG - Random Number Generate CSFNRNGL - Random Number Generate Long Now, is there any other profile that needs to be authorized for SSL to work ? I did peek the documentation and I could not find any references. curl -V curl 8.4.0 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/8.4.0 OpenSSL/3.1.4Release-Date: 2023-10-11Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftpFeatures: alt-svc AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy Largefile NTLM SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets

Has anyone added support for python in ChangeMan ZMF?#ChangeManZMF

The ALFFLTR member delivered in the distributed ZMF SAMPLES library lists all default log events that will be delivered to the NTFYURL address for processing. As explained in this member itself, all of the listed events are delivered commented in this member which results in all of them being emitted to the NTFYURL software (e.g. tomcat, SBM, etc.). Care needs to be taken when changing or uncommenting any single event in, or adding an additional, non-default event to, the ALFFLTR dataset/member. This will result in ONLY the uncommented events being sent. All other events that were formerly sent by default will automatically be disabled in this situation.#ALFFLTR#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#NTFYURL#ZMFRESTAPI

A new hotfix build of ChangeMan ZMF for Eclipse (ZMF4ECL) 8.3, ZMF4ECL 8.3.0 Hotfix 006 (build 690), is now available for customer use. This build resolves several issues, including the following: OCTCR46A367001 - Invalid message "Baseline level invalid - No response from ZMF" when Baseline Compare  This latest hotfix build is cumulative with earlier hotfix builds and therefore includes the changes included in all of these, too. We recommend customers either running or upgrading to ZMF4ECL 8.3 open a case with the Support team requesting a copy of the latest ZMF4ECL hotfix build.#SupportTip#ChangeManZMF#SupportTips/KnowledgeDocs#Announcement

We have already posted a Support Tip reminding customers of the need to rebuild all ZMF assembler exits (i.e. custom CMNEXnnn modules) when upgrading across the 8.3 release in the following post:  Support Tip: Remember to rebuild all assembler exits when upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3+   It is also important to note any significant changes to the supplied sample exits or copybooks that they use when upgrading the product. For example, customers who use the X09@ADSC table within CMNEX009 to add approvers to packages must note that up to and including the 8.2 Patch 7 release each table entry consisted of 90 byte records: ... X09@ADSC DS 0CL90 approver description table DC CL3'JCL' library type DC CL8'JCLCHECK' security entity name DC CL44'JCL Checker' description DC AL2(0002) hierarchical order number DC AL1(X09$M

In June 2023 we published the following Support Tip that contained maintenance which we recommend customers install prior to upgrading to the ZMF 8.3 release:  Support Tip: Recommended maintenance for customers running or upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3   This was followed in August 2023 with the following article detailing additional changes that we recommend customers install prior to their upgrade:  Support Tip: Further maintenance recommended for customers running or upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3   Recently a further issue has come to light that, again, we recommend customers resolve prior to upgrading the product. This is critical for customers that use ‘Save Staging Versions’ (SSV) functionality: SSM8.6.1.003/OCTCR46A339001 Users receiving CMN8711I errors after upgrade to ZMF 8.3 As always, the same notes, caveats, etc., as before apply to the above recommendation. Namely: a. All of the issues listed above, and their associated hotfixes, apply to the

Several articles have been published over the last year referencing maintenance we deem as high priority for customers moving to the ZMF 8.3 release. These follow:  Support Tip: Recommended maintenance for customers running or upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Support Tip: Further maintenance recommended for customers running or upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Support Tip: Additional maintenance recommended for customers upgrading to ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 (September 2023)   We recently diagnosed and produced a hotfix for a newly reported problem that falls into the same category. Customers running or upgrading to ZMF 8.3 and who use the default LDS mechanism to house their Impact Analysis (I/A) table should familiarise themselves with the problem documented in the following KB article and follow the instructions supplied to request the hotfix: ZMF 8.3.0.038/OCTCR46A377001 Impact Analysis table-related functions failing without explanation As always, the same notes, cav