Translating the ISPF messages text

All File Manager ISPF messages are provided in English.

They are also provided in Japanese if you have installed the Japanese component of File Manager, and in Korean if you have installed the Korean component of File Manager. You can translate some or all of these messages into other languages.

All File Manager ISPF messages are stored in FMN.SFMNMENU. You translate a message as follows:

  1. Find the members in FMN.SFMNMENU that contain the messages you want to translate. The message members specific to the File Manager Base function are all named FMNBzzzz or FMNMnn.
  2. Create a library with the same characteristics as FMN.SFMNMENU, with the name FMN.SFMNMyyy, where yyy is the same language code that you specified to change your print and display translation tables. (See step 4.a.) Copy the required message members from FMN.SFMNMENU to this library.
  3. Change the required message texts in these members in your library.

To use the messages you have translated, see Using the translated messages and panels.

Note: Be sure to include ALL the messages in the message members you copy to your own library. When File Manager needs to display an ISPF message, it uses ISPF services to do this. Therefore the search for a message is made according to ISPF rules. Thus, if ISPF finds the message member it requires in your library, but the message number required is not in that member, ISPF will not look in any other library for the message, but will give an error. However, if you omit a complete message member from your library, then ISPF will use the English message member from the next library in the ISPMLIB concatenation. For more information about defining and using ISPF messages, see z/OS ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide.