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Using ChangeMan ZMF - Advanced topics

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

Z-Course
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

Clone components via stage from development (S1)

Nobody ever starts developing a new program (component) from scratch, typically everybody always starts from a copy of an existing component. Just performing a checkout from baseline is not a solution, because you cannot change the member name, the library type or the application you are checking out from).

To take this even a step further: the (existing) component to be cloned may or may not have the same library type, and typically resides in either of these libraries: 

  • In a staging library of the same package or another package.
  • In a baseline library of the same application or another application.

So how can you do this cloning in ChangeMan ZMF?

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ChangeMan ZMF Users

ChangeMan ZMF Users are the actual users of ChangeMan ZMF, whereas they typically use ChangeMan ZMF in their daily job as developers, project managers, testers, etc. Their usages of ChangeMan ZMF is typically limited to functions such as checkout, stage, audit, freeze and promote.

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Locate a component in CMN/ZMF libraries

Test environments typically use concatenations of promotion (or shadow) libraries concatenated ahead of production (or baseline libraries). When an application in a test environment produces unexpected results, it is usually caused by old versions of a component still hanging around in one of the promotion (or shadow) libraries  in the concatenation list. That's where the ChangeMan ZMF helpdesk calls typically come in.

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Browse a component in any CMN/ZMF library

ChangeMan ZMF manages various types of datasets, likes staging libraries, promotion-, production- and baseline liraries, etc. Wouldn't it be great to have some type of browser to just browse (or view) any of these datasets from within a single ISPF panel? Maybe also some related datasets like Xnode DSNs, CMN100 reports, etc.?

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Z-Rewards

Z-Rewards is a way to reward users for performing certain actions within Dr.Chgman.com. Creating content for Dr.Chgman.com is it’s own reward, your selfless distribution of your knowledge can save someone else the pain and suffering of figuring out challenges on their own. But, we think your participation and/or contribution is worth a little something more.

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How to earn Z-Rewards

There are a number of ways to earn and accumulate Z-Rewards (and we change it periodically). You have to be a registered user and logged in to get Z-Rewards.

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How to exchange Z-Rewards

After you earned and accumulate a certain amount of Z-Rewards, you will be able to exchange these Z-Rewards for other products or services within Dr.Chgman.com.

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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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