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Customizing File Manager
Customizing File Manager
Changing the print and display translation tables
By default, File Manager translates unprintable characters in printed output to blanks (option PRTTRANS=ON), and non-displayable characters in displayed output to periods.

Customizing File Manager
- Preparing to customize File Manager
- Customizing the operating environment for File Manager
- Customizing File Manager
  - Changing the default options
  - Setting up File Manager to use a template repository
    A template repository is a VSAM file that contains cross-references of data sets, CICS® files (including CICS TS and CICS TD queues), path names, and WebSphere MQ queue names to their respective templates.
  - Changing the JCL skeleton for batch mode
  - Customizing File Manager batch return codes
  - Changing the print and display translation tables
    By default, File Manager translates unprintable characters in printed output to blanks (option PRTTRANS=ON), and non-displayable characters in displayed output to periods.
    - Changing the translation tables in English
      If you are using English, you use the usermod FMNUMODT and FMNTRTBS to change the print and display tables.
  - Changing the ASCII translation tables
- 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 the File Manager 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.

Changing the print and display translation tables

By default, File Manager translates unprintable characters in printed output to blanks (option PRTTRANS=ON), and non-displayable characters in displayed output to periods.

File Manager provides default translation tables for English (FMNTRTBS), German (FMNTRDEU), and , and Japanese (FMNTRJPN).

For other languages you will need to provide and maintain your own print translation table and display translation table. See Customizing File Manager for national languages for information on customizing File Manager for your language.

Sometimes you might want to display special characters on a terminal during a File Manager session, or print File Manager output in lowercase alphanumeric characters. To do this, you change the English translation table source member, FMN.SFMNSAM1(FMNTRTBS).

The translate tables that are used are:

TRPRT: used to translate unprintable characters to blanks in printed output. Change this table to include all the characters that you want to print.
TRBRW: used to translate non-displayable characters to periods in displayed output. Change this table to include all the characters that you want to display on your terminal.
TRUPC: used to translate lower case characters to uppercase characters for File Manager command verbs and command keywords only. This table generally does not need to be customized in an SBCS environment.
TRUP: used to translate lower case characters to uppercase characters.
TRINV: used as a second-step translate table to translate characters that are not supported by your particular display terminal. Display data is first translated using the TRBRW table, and the result of that translate is translated using this table. You should not need to change this table.