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Customizing File Manager
Customizing File Manager for national languages
You can customize File Manager for national languages other than English.
Translating the message text
All File Manager base function messages are stored in the FMN0MENU source member.
Translating the ISPF messages text
All File Manager ISPF messages are provided in English.

Customizing File Manager
- Preparing to customize File Manager
- Customizing the operating environment for File Manager
- 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.
  - Changing the print and display translation tables for languages other than English
    If you plan to use File Manager with a national language other than English, you might need to provide print and display tables specific to your language.
  - Translating the message text
    All File Manager base function messages are stored in the FMN0MENU source member.
    - Providing a multicultural version of FMN0MENU
    - Translating the ISPF messages text
      All File Manager ISPF messages are provided in English.
  - Translating the panel text
    All File Manager panels are provided in English.
  - Using the translated messages and panels
  - Customizing for the Japanese national language
- 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.

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. 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:

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.
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.
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.