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.
- 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
  - Specifying tape input or output
  - Specifying the number of tape files to process
  - Processing tapes with data-check errors
  - ASCII translation
  - Exported Stacked Volumes (ESVs)
  - Using primary commands with Tape Specific Functions
  - Tape Browse (option 4.1)
  - Tape Data Copy Function (option 4.2)
  - Tape Update (option 4.3)
  - Tape Record Load (option 4.4)
  - Tape Print (option 4.5)
  - Tape Map (option 4.6)
  - Create Tape Data (option 4.7)
    Use Create Tape Data to write simple test records to a tape file. You specify the tape that is to contain the records, the number of records, and the record length.
  - Tape Label Display (option 4.8)
  - Tape to Tape Compare (option 4.9)
  - Tape Record Scan (option 4.10)
  - Write Tape Mark (option 4.11)
  - Initialize Tape (option 4.12)
  - Erase Tape (option 4.13)
  - Exported Stacked Volume List (option 4.14)
  - Tape Positioning Functions (option 4.15)
- 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

ASCII translation

Use the ASCII entry field on the Set Tape Processing Options panel (option 0.3) to translate tape data between ASCII and EBCDIC format for all tape input and output options except the following:

Initialize Tape (option 4.12)
Tape Browse (option 4.1)
Tape Label Display (option 4.8)
Tape to Labeled Tape (option 4.2.3)
Tape to Tape Compare (option 4.9)
Tape Update (option 4.3)

For Tape Label Display, ASCII translation is automatically performed when needed. For Initialize Tape and Tape Browse, you can specify ASCII input or output on the respective panels. For the other functions, translation is not supported by FMN.

ASCII data is translated to EBCDIC format using the FMNA2E table. EBCDIC data is translated to ASCII format using the FMNE2A table. To translate data from one ASCII format to another ASCII format, customize these tables so that FMNA2E is different from FMNE2A. (For details, see the File Manager for z/OS Customization Guide .)

To translate tape data, set the ASCII entry field on the Set Processing Options panel to the appropriate value:

NO: Data not translated. This is the default.
IN: Translates ASCII tape data to EBCDIC format
OUT: Translates EBCDIC data to ASCII format for tape output
BOTH: Translates tape data from one ASCII format to another

Note: Translating labels or varying-length format tapes may produce incorrect output.