Language support

TSO/E takes advantage of the MVS™ message service to allow you to provide TSO/E information to users in their national language. TSO/E information includes TSO/E messages, help information for TSO/E commands, and the TRANSMIT command full-screen panel. In addition, the TSO/E CONSOLE command supports the display of translated system messages issued during an extended MCS console session.

To provide translated information at your installation, you need to:

Initialize and activate the MVS message service (MMS).
Set up languages for users.

For help information, you also need to specify the help data sets for each language supported by your installation.

For each user, you can specify a primary language and a secondary language to be used for displaying translated information. Languages can be specified using one of the following methods:

If your installation has RACF® installed, you can use RACF commands to set up languages for users
You can use the logon pre-prompt exit, IKJEFLD1, to set up languages for users
Individual users can use the TSO/E PROFILE command to set up or change languages for themselves.

You can use the IKJTSOxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB to define the help data sets to be used for different languages. In IKJTSOxx, you can:

Specify help for any number of languages
Specify up to 255 data sets to be searched for help text in a particular language.

For more information about customizing TSO/E for language support, see Customizing TSO/E for different languages.