Customer is running the fix for the following defect: OCTCR46A38001 ZMF4ECL: Users unable to connect to ZMF Server (SER8210E) However, a number of users continue to report the same symptoms using the fixed build (the fix was originally implemented in build 511,
In ZDD 6.1.1 when you issue the "SubmitJcl" function for a JCL member in a ZMF package it only submits the first instance and subsequent submits do not get submitted. Also there is no notification back so say the JCL has been submitted. To recreate the issue you need to carry out the following steps:
Customer has JES2 and JES3 mainframes, each running ZMF. The JOBCARD information is currently saved at the ZMF4ECL plug-in level and must be changed each time a job is submitted to the 'other' machine,
A customer is running ZMF4ECL hotfix 8.2.5.005.zip (8.2 Patch 5 HF Build 568) which contains the fixes to OCTCR46A38001 (ZMF4ECL: Users unable to connect to ZMF Server (SER8210E)), OCTCR46A56004 (ZMF4ECL: Multiple users still unable to connect to ZMF Server (SER
In the 8.2+ releases of the ChangeMan ZMF-related products and user interfaces Micro Focus have implemented some changes to the way in which specific functions are executed. This has resulted in us planning to add the following section to our existing ChangeMan Client Pack (i.e. ChangeMan ZDD and ChangeMan ZMF4ECL) documentation in the near future:
The customer has the 7.1.3.03-compatible hotfix for DEF273339 (S0C2 in SERXMVS using ZDD ‘Copy to data set’ function) installed. When using the ZDD 8.1.1 client software this works OK. However, when they change this to use the ZDD 8.1.3 client the following abend is encountered and the function is effectively unavailable within the 7.1.3.03 Server :
Build 213. When running package component stage jobs against a ZMF 8.1.0.01 server all expected notifications are being sent back to requesting users. However, when running stage jobs against a ZMF 8.1.1.01 server notifications are not being sent to the same users.
Record length is inconsistent with block size for this record format. When the dataset is created if you access the dataset from within ZDD you get the followabend in the ZMF\SERNET STC : Task abnormally terminated: Comp=S013 Function=MEMBER/LIST NSI=00E05FF8
Users connected to ZMF 7.1 servers from a ZDD 8.1.1 (build 500) client are not presented with the extended component user variables (UserOption101-UserOption7205/CUSR0101-CUSR7205) at component build time. Similar tests running against an 8.1 ZMF Server do show the user options.
