Translating the panel text

All FM/IMS ISPF panels are provided in English.

They are also provided in Japanese if you have installed the FM/IMS Japanese component. . You can translate some or all of these panels into another language. (If no translated version of a particular panel is available, FM/IMS uses the English version.)

All FM/IMS panels are stored in FMN.SFMNPENU. You translate a panel as follows:

  1. Find the panel members in FMN.SFMNPENU that you want to translate. The panel members specific to FM/IMS are all named FMN1zzzz.
  2. Create a library with the same characteristics as FMN.SFMNPENU, with the name FMN.SFMNPyyy, where yyy is the same language code you specified when you modified FMN1MENU. If you have already created a library with this name for translated File Manager Base function panels, use that library. Copy the required panel members from FMN.SFMNPENU to this library.
  3. Change the required panel text in the members in your library. A panel may reference a help panel by means of a .HELP statement. If any panel you are changing contains any of these .HELP statements, also copy and change these referenced members in your library.

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