Working with File Manager
- File Manager overview
- Getting started with File Manager
- Viewing and changing data sets
  To view data stored in a supported data set, use the View Utility or the Edit Utility.
- Creating and editing templates
  For many tasks performed with File Manager, you can manipulate your view of a data set by applying a template.
  - Template types and structure
    A File Manager template is a collection of information that you can use to select and format records and fields in an application data set.
  - Template repository
    The template repository is a VSAM KSDS file that is used to associate a data set or resource name with its corresponding template.
  - Managing templates
  - Manipulating the display of fields in records
  - Managing templates with the Template Workbench
  - Specifying scrambling options
  - Mapping fields between templates
  - Copybook View and Print Utility
    Use the Copybook View and Print Utility to view or print field definition information.
  - XML templates
    A File Manager template can be exported to an external XML format using the Template Export utility.
- Working with the Template List
  Display a list of templates and perform actions on them.
- Filtering records with templates
- Managing data sets
- Using File Manager utilities
- Tape Specific Functions
- Disk/VSAM Data Functions
- OAM Functions
- Using UNIX™ System Services and the Hierarchical File System
- Introduction to programming with File Manager functions
- Enhancing File Manager processing
  You can enhance normal processing of a number of File Manager tasks by supplying a procedure that runs in conjunction with the File Manager process.
- Redefines criteria
  Redefines criteria can be specified for a field with a REDEFINES clause, or a field that is the target of a REDEFINES clause.
- Enhanced ISPF: Reference List, Search, Change, and PDSE Workbench
  File Manager provides several enhancements to the basic facilities that are available in an ISPF session: Enhanced Reference List, Enhanced Search, Enhanced Change, and PDSE Workbench.
- File Manager Service Provider for z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition
  File Manager Service Provider for IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition enables client applications to access IBM Z data sources using z/OS Connect.
- Function and panel reference lists

Setting your HLASM processing options

When your HLASM copybooks fit into any of the following scenarios, you must set your HLASM processing options so that File Manager can process them correctly.

You have used DBCS characters in your copybooks.
You want the DC, DS and DXB instructions to be aligned on the correct boundaries only if the duplication factor is 0.

To set your HLASM processing options:

From the Primary Option Menu panel, select 0 Settings, then 5 Compiler, and 3 HLASM.
The HLASM Processing Options panel is displayed.
If you have used additional SYSLIBS, enter the names of the data sets in the Additional SYSLIB data set fields.
Members included by COPY directives must be found in the SYSLIB concatenation. When you specify a copybook on a File Manager panel to create a new template (or update an existing template), the SYSLIB concatenation consists of the PDS of the copybook, plus up to ten additional PDSs that you can specify on this panel. These PDSs are searched in order (PDS of the copybook, followed by these additional PDSs, 1–10.)

Note: CA-Panvalet libraries cannot be specified as additional SYSLIB sets. Further, if a CA-Panvalet Library is the main copybook library, then no additional SYSLIB data sets may be specified.
If your copybook contains DBCS characters, select the DBCS processing option.
If your HLASM copybook is compiled with NOALIGN, then select the NOALIGN processing option.
Additional compiler options which will be added via the *PROCESS statement.
To set the maximum acceptable return code for a compile, enter a value in the Maximum Return Code to be accepted from compiler field.
When using the online panels to generate a template from a copybook, if the compiler returns a warning/error code greater than the specified number, File Manager displays a pop-up menu in which you can make decisions about further processing.

When generating a template during the processing of a batch function, if the compiler returns a warning/error code greater than the specified number, File Manager halts the running of the function.
Press the Exit function key (F3) to save the changes you have made and exit the panel.

Related topics

Using HLASM copybooks with File Manager
For details on the effect of these compiler options, see theHLASM V1R6 Programmer's Guide.

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