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About this document
These topics provide information needed to plan for, customize, maintain, and diagnose problems with IBM® File Manager for z/OS®.
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).
  - Setting up the security environment by using RACF® or an equivalent security product
  - Unprotected functions and profile names for protected functions
  - Setting up the security environment for IBM® MQ
    File Manager provides security features to secure access to MQ resources when using File Manager functions.
- 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.
Customizing File Manager Db2® Component
Customizing File Manager IMS™ Component
Customizing File Manager CICS® Component
File Manager on VS Code
IBM File Manager for z/OS is a host component that supports various interfaces such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDEs.
File Manager on Eclipse
File Manager plug-in for Eclipse, when used with an Eclipse-based platform such as IBM® Explorer for z/OS® or IBM Developer for z/OS, provides easy access through a graphical user interface (GUI) on the workstation to IBM File Manager for z/OS.
Preparing for File Manager Remote Services
Customizing ADFz Common Components server
File Manager options
FM/Db2 options
FM/IMS options
File Manager options specified in PARMLIB members
The library management system exit
File Manager audit records
Support resources
Notices

Controlling the use of the PL/I compiler

A FACILITY CLASS profile is provided to allow you to control access to a licensed site PL/I compiler, IBMZPLI:

 FILEM.PLI.EXTERNAL

If a user ID running File Manager has CONTROL access or higher to this profile, File Manager always uses the licensed site PL/I compiler, if available, to compile templates from PL/I copybooks.

If the profile does not exist, or if the user ID has less than CONTROL access to the profile, File Manager uses the File Manager PL/I compiler.

For more information, see Using a licensed site PL/I compiler and Customizing for processing PL/I include books.

To determine whether the user ID has access to the profile, File Manager issues RACROUTE requests with STATUS=ACCESS to the FACILITY profiles.

When RACF® is used, the STATUS=ACCESS request works as documented. No security-related logging or abends occur, even if the user ID does not have access to the profile.

When a non-RACF security product, such as ACF2, is used, an ABEND S047 might occur in response to the RACROUTE request. If this occurs, consult the security product documentation and make the required changes.