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Hello users of our z/OS open-source ports, I am pleased to announce the release of Rocket Open AppDev for Z v2.0.17. This release includes version currency updates for PyJWT and Python, 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 December 31st, 2026. Version currency updates: PyJWT 2.13.0 Python 3.13.13 New version of IBM python released  CVEs published against earlier versions and resolved by V2.0.15: PyJWT CVE-2026-32597, CVE-2026-48522, CVE-2026-48523, CVE-2026-48524, CVE-2026-48525, CVE-2026-48526 fixes Python CVE-2025-12084, CVE-2025-13462, CVE-2025-13836, CVE-2025-13837, CVE-2025-6075, CVE-2026-3644, CVE-2026-4224, CVE-2026-4519 fixes  Fixes/CVEs in dependencies: Cert-bundle 2026.03.31 Certificate bundle update Urllib3 2.7.0 CVE-2026

While using VSCode ZMF Explorer users may get message: Inactive token expired - Click the Profile RegenerateSession Tokens icon - ZMFREST Source: ZMF Explorer Is it possible to change the token expiration time? How? Thanks.#ChangeManZMF#ZMFExplorer

Occasionally, VSCode fails to correctly load extensions. When you then attempt to click on a ZMF Explorer icon you may get a message for example. "Refresh Command not found" etc This may sometimes occur when VSCode has performed one of its regular monthly updates. When this occurs: Shutdown VSCode,  Restart VSCode Click Help - Toggle Developer Tools  Then select Console from the top line menu barAttempt to open and run the extension.Check the console for errors. Often that can provide a good indication of what actually went wrong.#HowTo-BestPractice#ChangeManZMF

It would be nice if you could have a package filter in the favorite without having to drill down to packages under an application.

Announcing the latest update for ChangeMan ZMF 8.3 Patch Update 2 (8.3.2)Rocket Software is pleased to announce a new release of ChangeMan ZMF, delivering a significant set of enhancements focused on modernization, resilience, usability, and deeper lifecycle automation. This release contains more than 50 enhancements, including over 20 driven directly by customer-submitted ideas through our Ideas portal.Below are some of the key highlight themes from this release:Enhanced Change Package Visibility & ControlsThis release introduces several improvements that streamline Change Package management and strengthen lifecycle governance. Enhancements include clearer visibility into unavailable package actions, additional requestor information across list/query/approve workflows, and expanded metadata passed to exits to support automation, auditing, and integration processes.Db2 Development ImprovementsWe’ve delivered several targeted updates that make Db2 change management smoother and more

Hi,The version of cURL in my z/OS system is: curl 7.52.1 (i370-ibm-openedition)curl-config --ca returns: /u/mvsbuild/py361z/python36/etc/ssl/cacert.pem But I can't find that directory. Instead I found cacert.pem is under /u/python/python36/etc/ssl. So I created that directory and copy cacert.pem there.I tried 3 different ways:1) When I issue the command without specifying --cacert and --capath, I got errorcurl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain2) When I issue the command specifying --cacert and --capath, I got errorcurl: (77) error setting certificate verify locations:CAfile: cacert.pem CApath: /u/mvsbuild/py361z/python36/etc/ssl 3) When I copy the cacert.pem file to the current directory, it works.Questions:1. Is there something wrong with the build process that made the cacert.pem stored in a wrong location?2. After manually copied the cacert.pem to the desired location, why can't it be used, even specifying the location explicitly?3. Is it a

Eager to know about the Enterprise content

Hi, we're actually running ChangeMan ZMF 8.3.0 and we're planning ChangeMan activities for next year. I've seen that ChangeMan 8.3.2 should be out in 2026 Q1 so I was searching informations about this version. Is there already a list of fixes and enhancements planned for 8.3.2? I would like also to ask where is the link for the ChangeMan ZMF versions / EOS dates matrix. Thank you. ------------------------------Stefano AntoniazziRaiffeisen Information Service------------------------------

  Hello users of our z/OS open-source ports, I am pleased to announce the release of Rocket Open AppDev for Z v2.0.15. This release includes ports of two new tools, Py4J, and Python-confluent-kafka, and version currency updates for cURL, Git, Less, and Nano, 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 June 19th, 2026. Version currency updates: Curl 8.17.0 Git 2.47.3 Less 685 Nano 8.7  New supported tool: Py4J 0.10.9.9 Python-confluent-kafka 2.5.0  CVEs published against earlier versions and resolved by V2.0.14: Curl CVE-2025-10966 fix Git CVE-2024-52006, CVE-2024-50349, CVE-2025-27613, CVE-2025-27614, CVE-2025-46835, CVE-2025-48385, CVE-2025-48386 fixes  Fixes/CVEs in dependencies: Cert-bundle 2025.12.11 Certificate bundle update Sed 4.9 B

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 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------------------------------