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Using ChangeMan ZMF - Getting started

Introduction to functions and uses of ChangeMan ZMF, which is the foundation (and pre-req) for additional ChangeMan ZMF training classes, to provide general knowledge about major ChangeMan ZMF func

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Topics: 
  • General concepts and facilities, including:
    • ChangeMan ZMF's Change Packages.
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Lifecycle.
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Library Structure.
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Architecture.
  • ChangeMan ZMF terminology.
  • Navigating the various ISPF panels in ChangeMan ZMF (Primary menu options and Build menu options).
Audience: 
Duration (hours): 
8.00

ChangeMan ZMF Application Administration - Getting started

This is an in-depth introduction to ChangeMan ZMF's application administration functions, which is also the foundation (and pre-req) for ChangeMan ZMF's global administration training classes.

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Topics: 
  • Configuring a ChangeMan ZMF Application:
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Lifecycle (application parms).
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Library Structure:
      • Library types and baseline libraries.
      • Local and/or remote promotion or production sites.
      • Promotion and/or production libraries.
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Security Architecture.
      • Package approvals configuration.
      • Promotion authorizations configuration.
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Programming Languages and Compile Procedures.
    • Configuring logical DB2 subsystems.
  • Navigating the various ISPF panels in ChangeMan ZMF related to application administration.
Audience: 
  • ChangeMan ZMF Administrators involved in the customization, installation, configuration or optimization of ChangeMan ZMF.
  • ChangeMan ZMF Helpdesk operators assuming they are authorized / responsible also for performing application administration also.
  • Release managers who want to learn about how ChangeMan ZMF can help them implementing (and enforcing) their release management procedures.
  • IT Auditors who want to increase their understanding of ChangeMan ZMF's functions and processes.
  • Users such as Operations control, project leaders, development managers, .... interested in learning more about ChangeMan ZMF and its key concepts.
Duration (hours): 
8.00

ChangeMan ZMF Global Administration - Getting started

This is an in-depth introduction to ChangeMan ZMF's global administration functions.

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Topics: 
  • Configuring ChangeMan ZMF subsystems:
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Lifecycle (global parms).
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Library Structure:
      • Library types.
      • Local and/or remote promotion or production sites.
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Security Architecture.
      • Global and application administration authorizations configuration.
      • Revert, backout and monitor authorizations configuration
    • The ChangeMan ZMF Programming Languages and Compile Procedures.
    • Configuring DB2 subsystems.
  • Navigating the various ISPF panels in ChangeMan ZMF related to global administration.
Audience: 
Duration (hours): 
8.00

Using ChangeMan ZMF - Advanced topics

Advanced functions and uses of ChangeMan ZMF, providing lots of details about all sorts of advanced ChangeMan ZMF functions.

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Topics: 
  • Simple, participating and complex packages
  • Temporary and unplanned package concepts
  • Resolve any audit out-of-synch conditions
  • Merge & Reconcile (M+R, formerly CDF)
  • Utility requests (scratch and rename)
  • Unfreeze, Recompile, and Relink
  • Scan and compare
  • Package Monitor and Backout functions
  • LCT card processing (for developers)
  • Understandinging the translation utility CMNWRITE
  • DB2 option
Audience: 
Duration (hours): 
8.00

Using ChangeMan ZMF - Operations control

Introduction to functions and uses of ChangeMan ZMF specific to deploying the content of change packages (created by ChangeMan ZMF Users) in pre-production (test

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Topics: 
  • Navigating the relevant ISPF panels in ChangeMan ZMF (Query Package, Promote and Approve).
  • Typical problems during promote or install
    • Package not ready for further processing
    • DB2 binds problems
    • Space/directory problems
  • How to restart failed installation jobs
  • How to handle unexpected returncodes in CMN* pgms
  • How to use ChangeMan ZMF to investigate prod abends
  • Suggestions for Operations control and/or Release managers
Audience: 
Duration (hours): 
2.00

Lesson 4: Products complementing CMN/ZMF's XML services

After completing the previous lessons in this course, it will be clear that the XML services in ChangeMan ZMF are an extremely powerful set of functions. But it will also be clear that there are quite a few challenges (missing features, etc) to use these XML services successfully.

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Lesson 3: Exploring the XML universe

Dr Chgman's Training about XML services in ChangeMan ZMFTo actually start using the XML services, probably the biggest challenge is to become aware (and learn how to use) each of the available XML services.

This lesson starts with providing a functional overview of all available XML services, with an overview organised corresponding to the major ChangeMan ZMF concepts like administration, packages and components. Afterwards some special XML services (utilities and transfer facilities) are explained.

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Lesson 2: Using XMLSERV for prototyping

Dr Chgman's Training about XML services in ChangeMan ZMFThis lesson teaches the use of XMLSERV, an  ISPF dialog that comes with ChangeMan ZMF and that can be used for XML prototyping.

The lesson also explains some deficiencies about XMLSERV, and explores some alternatives to XMLSERV.

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Lesson 1: Getting started with XML in ChangeMan ZMF

Dr Chgman's Training about XML services in ChangeMan ZMFThis lesson starts with an historical overview of where the XML services in ChangeMan ZMF originate from, after which some basic concepts of XML in general are explained.

The lesson then explains of how the use of XML is implemented in ChangeMan ZMF via its SERXML-clients, and how each XML service can be narrowed down to a common anatomy.

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Lesson 1: Xnode datasets for install / backout

ChangeMan ZMF uses a set of PDS members to perform the installation (or later the backout) of a package (in a selected local or remote site).

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