These are available for download by any customer entitled to ZMF. The challenge here is that these web services cannot be used asis. They must be implemented within a programming language to manage session state.
ChangeMan ZMF 8.2 Patch 2 and ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack Patch 2 were released on September 27th, 2019. This release includes support for IBM z/OS 2.4 and new ZMF REST Service APIs. You can download them here .
A customer has their own homegrown eclipse integration tool built using ZMF web services. When downloading a specific component that contains a significant amount of non-display, hexadecimal characters using the BrowseComponent web service they are encountering the following type of error:
Affected users appear to be unable to access any components and ZMF Server traces suggest that the download request is never being sent to the server. The RDz .log file shows the following types of error:
The problem is that when the user attempts to access a component (package or baseline in browse or edit) ZMF4ECL returns corrupt looking data. Again, traces show a ‘SER4184E DATASET DOWNLOAD request is not allowed’ message which suggests that an invalid user token is being generated for the affected user's sessions on the problem machine.
e. close the open/corrupt window, wait until the ZMF started task is restarted and retry. However, the problem persists. Traces show a 'SER4184E DATASET DOWNLOAD request is not allowed' message which would appear to be related.
However, after several days the problem apparently ‘disappears’ in response to no particular action. In both of the occurrences we have traced we do see a ‘SER4184E DATASET DOWNLOAD request is not allowed’ message which would appear to be related. Whether or not this is the cause or a symptom of the problem is unclear.
