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Customizing File Manager
Customizing the operating environment for File Manager
Enabling File Manager to work with certain products
Enabling WebSphere® MQ support
To access WebSphere® MQ queue managers and queue contents on the local z/OS® system where File Manager is running, the WebSphere MQ libraries must be made available to File Manager and users must be granted read and update access.

Customizing File Manager
- Preparing to customize File Manager
- Customizing the operating environment for File Manager
  - Enable/Register File Manager
  - Modifying the ISPF environment
    To make it easy to start File Manager under ISPF, configure your ISPF environment as described in the following sections.
  - Enabling File Manager to work with certain products
    - Enabling WebSphere® MQ support
      To access WebSphere® MQ queue managers and queue contents on the local z/OS® system where File Manager is running, the WebSphere MQ libraries must be made available to File Manager and users must be granted read and update access.
    - Customizing for processing COBOL copybooks
      To use the view, edit, copy, print, or data create functions with a COBOL copybook, you need to make a COBOL compiler available to File Manager.
    - Customizing for processing PL/I include books
    - Customizing for processing HLASM copybooks
    - Customizing to use DFSORT to improve File Manager performance
      File Manager can use DFSORT to improve the performance of the Data Set Copy and Data Set Print functions under ISPF and in batch.
    - Binding Db2® to use File Manager object access method (OAM) functions
  - Disabling Websphere MQ feature by system name
  - Running File Manager with APF-authorization
  - Language Environment® considerations
- Customizing File Manager
- Customizing the File Manager security environment
  File Manager provides security for system-oriented functions through RACF® (or an equivalent security product).
- Customizing File Manager to write audit records to SMF
- Customizing the File Manager audit facility for Base component
- Customizing File Manager for national languages
  You can customize File Manager for national languages other than English.
- Customizing File Manager Service Provider for z/OS® Connect
  File Manager Service Provider for IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition enables client applications to access IBM Z data sources using z/OS Connect.
- Customizing File Manager to use library management system libraries
- Customizing File Manager to use the Optim™ Data Privacy Provider API
- Customizing File Manager to use an I/O exit
- Customizing File Manager to use a scrambling exit
- Verifying the customization of File Manager
  After you have completed the initial installation and customization of File Manager base function, you can perform the following steps to verify your customization.

Enabling WebSphere® MQ support

To access WebSphere® MQ queue managers and queue contents on the local z/OS® system where File Manager is running, the WebSphere® MQ libraries must be made available to File Manager and users must be granted read and update access.

For File Manager base functions, the WebSphere® MQ load libraries SCSQANLE, SCSQAUTH, and SCSQLOAD must be made available to the TSO or batch job user, either in the linklist, or as part of the STEPLIB in the TSO procedure (or batch JCL). File Manager MQ functions make use of sending messages to the SYSTEM.COMMAND.QUEUE and creating a dynamic queue using SYSTEM.COMMAND.REPLY.MODEL queue to retrieve the replies. The high level qualifier for this reply queue is customizable in the FMN0POPT table, as keyword MQREPHLQ. The sample options module contains a value of FMNTMQL. for the high level qualifier. When the dynamic queue name is passed to the MQ APIs for construction, it will use the HLQ as specified in the options module, appended with the current user ID and a ".*" string. The MQ manager being used will then return the full dynamic name to be used. You can change this high level qualifier to suit your installation's MQ security rules.

Note: For an FMNELIBD invocation of File Manager, the WebSphere® MQ load libraries can be specified when customizing theFMNELIBD exec. See Preparing File Manager to run with LIBDEFs for more details.

File Manager users who must access IBM® MQ resources require the following access:

Update access to the dynamic queues MQREPHLQ.userid.*
Update access to the SYSTEM.COMMAND.INPUT queue
Read access to the SYSTEM.COMMAND.REPLY.MODEL queue

Requesting users also require relevant permissions to access specific IBM® MQ resources. These resources might include these permissions:

To connect to queue managers
To read or alter queue manager or queue attributes
To create and delete resources
To browse or destructively get queue messages

To determine what permissions are required, see Setting up security on z/OS in the IBM® MQ security documentation in IBM Knowledge Center.

For FM/CICS using the ADFzCC server , they must be added to the configuration data for the FMNLIB concatenation in the ADFz Common Components CONFIG DD concatenation. For more information about the ADFzCC server and configuration data, see Customizing the ADFzCC server.