Top 10 ChangeMan ZMF Customizations

Top 10 ChangeMan ZMF
Customizations
http://www.abitmore-scm.com/
Speaker:
Pierre.Vriens @ abitmore-scm.com

Copyright © 2011 AbitMORE ® 2 Top 10 ChangeMan ZMF customizations
Abstract
From the perspective of a Serena partner,
you will hear an overview of
the most commonly used (popular) customizations.
There will also be a discussion
about the techniques used by AbitMORE
to develop these customizations so that they are
reusable, configurable and
ChangeMan ZMF release independent.

Agenda
 About AbitMORE SCM
 AbitMORE SCM products and services
 Evaluating of CMN/ZMF customizations
 CMN/ZMF customization categories
 Top 10 nominees
 Top 10 ranking
 Previews
 Customization techniques
 Obtaining the solutions / customizations
 Questions?
 Bottom line
 Fine print

About AbitMORE SCM
 Founded in 2000, based in Belgium
 CMN/ZMF experience: over 150 man-years, in 3 continents
 Customers such as (incomplete list …)
 Europe : KBC, Dexia, Euroclear, Credit Suisse, …
 USA : Prudential , Conway CNF, …
 …
 Participations in CMN/ZMF events
 Attendee of all SERENA global conferences (since 1991)
 Legacy sponsor of all SERENA global conferences since 2005
 Legacy co-organizer of the CMN/ZMF Benelux user groups
 Regional CMN/ZMF user groups
 Regional CMN/ZMF XML workshops
 Contact info
 Corporate website: http://www.abitmore.eu
 SCM specific website: http://www.abitmore-scm.com
 CMN/ZMF specific website: http://www.chgman.com
 eMail: info@abitmore-scm.com

AbitMORE SCM products and services
 Provider of onsite CMN/ZMF services
 CMN/ZMF implementation and upgrade services (consulting)
 CMN/ZMF training services
 CMN/ZMF helpdesk outsourcing services (ITIL based)
 SERENA XML certified since 2004
 Provider of CMN/ZMF product options
 AbitMORE SCM Reporting - On demand CMN/ZMF reporting
 AbitMORE SCM Commander - XML based workbench for CMN/ZMF
 AbitMORE SCM For IDMS/ADSO - Manage ADSO with CMN/ZMF
 Provider of CMN/ZMF expertise in the cloud, via http://Dr.Chgman.com
 Z-Factory - Z-Issues, Z-Clues, Z-Files
 Z-Wiki - Z-Recipes, Z-Deficiencies, Z-Redbook, Z-Practices
 Z-Consults - Z-Support, Z-Audit, Z-Tuning, Z-Assist, Z-Coach, Z-Act
 Z-University - User training, admin training, XML training

Evaluating CMN/ZMF customizations
Criteria Description
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction How much does the customization help to reduce
the need for specific CMN/ZMF training topics?
Implementation effort How much effort does it take to implement the
customization?
Productivity gain What‟s the increase in productivity by using the
customization?
Facilitate helpdesk operations Does the customization facilitate the work of a
CMN/ZMF helpdesk operator?
Standards enforcement How much does the customization contribute to
better enforcing certain standards?
Resource consumption reduction Does the customization decrease CMN/ZMF resource
consumption (CPU, EXCPs, …)?
Administrator workload reduction How much does the customization help to reduce
the workload / backlog of a CMN/ZMF administrator?
CMN/ZMF release dependency Does the customization depend on specific CMN/ZMF
release Ids?
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Does the implementation of the customization
depend on implementation specific settings?

CMN/ZMF customization categories
 CMN2Go – Extend CMN/ZMF lifecycle
 Workbench – 1 shot CMN/ZMF operations
 Console – Simplify CMN/ZMF helpdesk operations
 CMNAdmin – Simplify CMN/ZMF administration
 SCM Beans – Facilitate customizing CMN/ZMF
 TuneUps – Reduce resources and enhance performance
 Plugins – Major CMN/ZMF extensions
 Deficiencies – Resolve undocumented CMN/ZMF issues
 Recipes – Apply commonly used CMN/ZMF techniques
 AbitMORE SCM products - CMN/ZMF add-ons

Top 10 nominees:
CMN2GO – Extend CMN/ZMF lifecycle
 CMN/ZMF lifecycle extensions providing extra CMN/ZMF functions
 Customizations:
1. Clone components via stage from development (S1)
2. Archive the audit report in the package
3. Checkout the results of a scan
4. IA/Audit for dynamically called routines
 Evaluation:
Customization ID 1 2 3 4
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Medium – 3 Low – 1 Low – 1 Low – 1
Implementation effort Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5 Medium – 3
Productivity gain Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Huge – 7 High – 5
Facilitate helpdesk operations Medium – 3 High – 5 Low – 1 Low – 1
Standards enforcement N.A. High – 5 N.A. Medium – 3
Resource consumption reduction N.A. Low – 1 N.A. N.A.
Administrator workload reduction N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
CMN/ZMF release dependency Low - 5 Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Low - 5 Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
Score 24 30 24 23

Top 10 nominees:
Workbench – 1 shot CMN/ZMF operations
 Perform powerful CMN/ZMF operations from a single ISPF panel
 Customizations (excl. Ping ZMF and AbM SCM Scanner):
1. AbM SCM Inspector - which CMN/ZMF DSNs contain a component
2. AbM SCM Browser - list CMN/ZMF DSNs and browse CMN/ZMF components
3. AbM SCM Explorer - TCP/IP based replacement of CMN/ZMF‟s ISPF dialog
4. AbM SCM Auditor – Analyze the CMN/ZMF log files
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction High – 5 Medium – 3 Huge – 7 Medium – 3
Implementation effort Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
Productivity gain Huge – 7 High – 5 Huge – 7 High – 5
Facilitate helpdesk operations High – 5 Medium – 3 High – 5 High – 5
Standards enforcement N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Resource consumption reduction Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Medium – 3
Administrator workload reduction N.A. Medium – 3 Low – 1 Medium – 3
CMN/ZMF release dependency Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
Score 35 32 38 34

Top 10 nominees:
Console – Simplify CMN/ZMF helpdesk operations
 Features for CMN/ZMF helpdesk operators and production followup
 Customizations:
1. Show usropts / V0x-vars in CMN/ZMF jobs
2. Add restart instructions in Xnode jobs
3. Split CMN21 job in multiple mbrs
 Evaluation:
Customization ID 1 2 3
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Low – 1 High – 5 Medium – 3
Implementation effort Low – 5 Medium – 3 Medium – 3
Productivity gain Low – 1 High – 5 High – 5
Facilitate helpdesk operations High – 5 Huge – 7 High – 5
Standards enforcement N.A. Medium – 3 N.A.
Resource consumption reduction N.A. N.A. Low – 1
Administrator workload reduction Low – 1 Low – 1 Low – 1
CMN/ZMF release dependency Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency High – 1 Low – 5 Low – 5
Score 19 34 28

Top 10 nominees:
CMNAdmin – Simplify CMN/ZMF administration
 Tools to simplify CMN/ZMF administration tasks
 Customizations:
1. Use custom ISPF tables in CMN/ZMF's FTINCL
2. Verify / allocate promo, baseline and prod DSNs in appl admin
3. Reduce amount of expired packages in limbo
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Low – 1
Implementation effort Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Medium – 3
Productivity gain High – 5 High – 5 Medium – 3
Facilitate helpdesk operations Medium – 3 High – 5 Medium – 3
Standards enforcement Medium – 3 High – 5 Medium – 3
Resource consumption reduction Low – 1 Low – 1 High – 5
Administrator workload reduction High – 5 Huge – 7 Low – 1
Score 29 39 29

Top 10 nominees:
SCM Beans – Facilitate customizing CMN/ZMF
 Reusable software components to facilitate developing additional
CMN/ZMF customizations
 Customizations:
1. Simplify CMNBAT90 - SERCOPY usage to activate components
2. Analyze the content of a package
3. Secure panel cmds by security entity checks
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Medium – 3
Implementation effort Medium – 3 Low – 5 Medium – 3
Productivity gain High – 5 High – 5 High – 5
Facilitate helpdesk operations N.A. N.A. Medium – 3
Standards enforcement High – 5 High – 5 Medium – 3
Resource consumption reduction N.A. N.A. N.A.
Administrator workload reduction High – 5 High – 5 High – 5
CMN/ZMF release dependency High – 1 Low – 5 Low – 5
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Low – 5 Low – 5 High – 1
Score 27 33 28

Top 10 nominees:
TuneUps – Reduce resources and enhance performance
 Facilities to reduce CMN/ZMF's resource consumption and enhance
its overall performance
 Customizations:
1. Create member lists to improve Xnode processing
2. Eliminate duplicate FTINCLs in CMN30/CMN55
3. Create an archive CMN subsystem to reduce CMNPMAST size
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Medium – 3 N.A. N.A.
Implementation effort Medium – 3 Medium – 3 High – 1
Productivity gain Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Huge – 7
Facilitate helpdesk operations Medium – 3 N.A. Medium – 3
Standards enforcement Medium – 3 N.A. Medium – 3
Resource consumption reduction Huge – 7 Huge – 7 Huge – 7
Administrator workload reduction Low – 1 N.A. N.A.
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Medium – 3 N.A. N.A.
Score 31 18 26

Top 10 nominees:
Plugins – Major CMN/ZMF extensions
 Powerful software packages to implement major CMN/ZMF
extensions
 Customizations:
1. Enforce component ownership and/or naming conventions
2. Move components between CMN/ZMF applications
3. Apply mass updates in DFZ pkgs and baselines
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Low – 1 N.A. Medium – 3
Implementation effort Low – 5 Medium – 3 Low – 5
Productivity gain Medium – 3 Huge – 7 Huge – 7
Facilitate helpdesk operations Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Low – 1
Standards enforcement High – 5 High – 5 Huge – 7
Resource consumption reduction N.A. Medium – 3 N.A.
Administrator workload reduction High – 5 High – 5 High – 5
Score 28 36 37

Top 10 nominees:
Deficiencies – Resolve undocumented CMN/ZMF issues
 Undocumented CMN/ZMF issues to know about (+ solutions)
 Customizations:
1. Keep LSTs readable via unique &&LISTxyz
2. Limit compile SYSLIBs to language specific CPYs
3. Get around SERPRINT‟s VIO issue
4. Manage promlibs that cannot be concatenated (fmt, sysin, …)
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Low – 1 N.A. N.A. High – 5
Implementation effort High – 1 Medium – 3 Medium – 3 High – 1
Productivity gain High – 5 Medium – 3 Medium – 3 High – 5
Facilitate helpdesk operations High – 5 High – 5 High – 5 N.A.
Standards enforcement High – 5 High – 5 N.A. High – 5
Resource consumption reduction N.A. Low – 1 N.A. N.A.
Administrator workload reduction Medium – 3 Medium – 3 N.A. N.A.
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency High – 1 High – 1 Low – 5 High – 1
Score 26 26 21 22

Top 10 nominees:
Recipes – Apply commonly used CMN/ZMF techniques
 Instructions about commonly used CMN/ZMF techniques
 Customizations:
1. CMN-on-CMN (aka CMN²) and CMN³ (=CMN² for multiple DP-sites)
2. Use CMN$$VAR in any CMN/ZMF job (not only in staging skeletons)
3. Unlimited 3D skel vars combinations (each appl has a unique 3D skel vars table)
4. User defined relationships for like SRCs (bill of material)
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Low – 1 Low – 1 N.A. High – 5
Implementation effort Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Low – 5 Medium – 3
Productivity gain High – 5 Medium – 3 Medium – 3 Huge – 7
Facilitate helpdesk operations Low – 1 High – 5 High – 5 N.A.
Standards enforcement High – 5 High – 5 High – 5 High – 5
Resource consumption reduction N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Administrator workload reduction High – 5 High – 5 High – 5 N.A.
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Medium – 3 High – 1 N.A. High – 1
Score 28 28 28 26

Top 10 nominees:
AbM SCM prods – CMN/ZMF add-ons
 Selectable options for CMN/ZMF, marketed and supported by
AbitMORE and compliant to any CMN/ZMF release
 Products (not just customizations ... including M&E and support):
1. AbitMORE SCM Reporting (ZMF reporting by non-admins)
2. AbitMORE SCM Commander (unleash the power of XML)
3. AbitMORE SCM for IDMS/ADSO (support ADSO in CMN/ZMF)
 Evaluation:
CMN/ZMF training needs reduction Huge - 7 Huge - 7 High – 5
Implementation effort Low – 5 Low - 5 Low – 5
Productivity gain Huge - 7 Huge - 7 Huge – 7
Facilitate helpdesk operations High – 5 Huge – 7 N.A.
Standards enforcement High – 5 High – 5 High – 5
Resource consumption reduction High – 5 High – 5 Huge – 7
Administrator workload reduction High – 5 Huge – 7 N.A.
CMN/ZMF implementation dependency Low – 5 Low – 5 Low – 5
Score 49 53 39

Top 10 ranking
Ranking Customization
ID
Description Score Preview
01 CMNAdmin – 2 Verify/alloc CMN/ZMF dsns in appl admin 39
02 Workbench – 3 AbM SCM Explorer 38
03 Plugins – 3 Mass updates in DFZ pkgs and baselines 37 
04 Plugins – 2 Move components between appls 36
05 Workbench – 1 AbM SCM Inspector 35 
06 Console – 2 Add restart instructions in Xnode jobs 34 
06 Workbench – 4 AbM SCM Auditor 34 
08 SCMBeans – 2 Analyze the content of a pkg 33 
09 Workbench – 2 AbM SCM Browser 32 
10 TuneUps – 1 Create mbrlists in Xnode DSNs 31 
(****) AbM SCM prods – 1 AbitMORE SCM Reporting 49 
(*****) AbM SCM prods – 2 AbitMORE SCM Commander 53 
(***) AbM SCM prods – 3 AbitMORE SCM for IDMS/ADSO 39
(***, ****, *****) = Superstars excluded from the ranking

Previews

Mass updates in DFZ pkgs+BAS

AbM SCM Inspector

Add restart instr. in Xnode jobs

AbM SCM Auditor
 Analyze the content of a pkg

AbM SCM Browser

Create mbrlists in Xnode DSNs

AbitMORE SCM Reporting
 AbitMORE SCM Commander

Previews - Mass updates in DFZ pkgs+BAS
SeqNr Description BAS FRZ DEV Orph
00 Restrict updates to libtype XYZ X X X X
01 Create DSN scanlists X X X X
02 Create pkgs X - - -
03 Init (or reset) followup tables X X X -
04 Checkout/unfreeze comps X X - -
05 Apply the changes X X X -
06 Stage comps X X X -
07 Audit pkgs X X - -
08 Freeze pkgs/refreeze comps X X - -
09 Approve pkgs X - - -
10 Allow updates to libtype XYZ X X X X

Previews - AbM SCM Inspector (1/2)

Previews - AbM SCM Inspector (2/2)

Previews - Add restart instr. in Xnode jobs

Previews - AbM SCM Auditor (1/3)

Previews - Analyze the content of a pkg

Previews - AbM SCM Browser (1/5)

Previews - Create mbrlists in Xnodes (1/2)

Previews - Create mbrlists in Xnodes (2/2)

Previews - AbitMORE SCM Reporting

Previews - AbitMORE SCM Commander

Customization techniques (1/2)
 Commonly used skeleton techniques
 Application specific 3D skeleton variables
 CMN$$VAR-like skeleton in CKO, STG, PRM, DMT, INS, BAS, BAK
 Skeleton based redesign of Xnode jobflows
 Create extra Xnode-members (#&-sign, as in CMN$$SJN)
 Redesign Xnode jobs (e.g. move BKP steps from CMN20 to CMN11)
 Split X-node-members in multiple jobs at runtime (e.g. DB2 binds)
 PGM=CMNBATCH transactions (e.g. to submit of a job with STC auth)
 Object oriented skeleton coding (cfr. DDTs def. of OO …)
 Blackbox-skeletons (like $$B90, $$APC, …)
 Activation flags (which ZMF release, is it active Y/N, libtype vars, …)
 Auto-increment a skeleton counter (e.g. to ensure unique &&LISTxyz)
 Default values for skeleton variables (override via value <> &Z)
 Local skeleton variables (always &Z at end of skeleton)
 Skeleton “function” to make DMT = BAK, or PRM = INS
 ISPF tables techniques
 Extra ISPF tables in the ZMF STC (to extend global/appl admin)
 ISPF cmd tables (e.g. ZMF cmd extensions in AbM SCM Commander)

Customization techniques (2/2)
 Rexx techniques
 ASx$CONF for settings, preferences, options, etc
 Extra jobstep(s) in audit or (batch) freeze
 ISPF panel exits (attention: not XML tolerant!)
 XML techniques
 XML based lookups of ZMF values (optionally using TCP/IP)
 Make customizations XML tolerant via V0x-vars
 ASX-Calls (ASX=„AbitMORE SCM framework for XML‟)
 XML queue processing (= verify SUCCESS or FAILURE of all CMN/ZMF
submitted jobs, triggered by a single XML request for a lot (hundreds)
of packages such as audit, freeze or promote)
 Advanced techniques:
 Bill-Of-Material components (APS, ADSO, VAG, $SX, XFS, XFL)
 Trigger library types (VAG, APS, …)
 Question: when will any of these techniques show up vanilla ZMF?

Obtaining the solutions / customizations
 Re-invent the wheel by:
 Developing them yourself or
 Hiring a CMN/ZMF consultant (from AbitMORE, from SERENA, from …)
 Maybe in a future CMN/ZMF release, like what happened with:
 Skeleton CMN$$PRM
 Last „action‟ (instead of last „change‟) on various ISPF panels
 Various audit features, such as:
• Pgm=CMNAUDRC
• Audit-à-la-carte (=CMNEX02*)
• XML service PACKAGE AUDIT (since 5.5, not yet in 5.3)
 Scheduled promote
 License AbM SCM Reporting (includes Workbench solutions)
 Download them as a solution from Dr.Chgman.com:
 Sign up at dr.chgman.com for:
• a (free of charge) membership (optionally combined with a support subscription) or
• a monthly, quarterly or yearly (subscription fee based) subscription (includes support)
 Available licenses (varies by solution):
• Open Source software license
• Creative Commons license
• Freeware/shareware software license
• Professional software license (includes traditional M&E and support)

 Website: http://www. abitmore-scm.com/
 eMail: info@abitmore-scm.com
Questions?
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Bottom line
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Fine print
 Copyrights
 Copyright, (c) 2011 by AbitMORE ® bvba . All rights reserved.
 No part of this presentation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording or otherwise - without the written permission of AbitMORE ® bvba
 Trademarks
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 All other products and company names are used for identification purpose only,
and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
 Disclaimers
 AbitMORE ® bvba makes no representations or warranties with respect to the
material in this document, and no express or implied warranties for product use
are included by use of it.
 Material herein is intended as reference matter only. AbitMORE ® bvba reserves
the right to amend and revise it at its discretion.

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