Creating a custom locale profile

Create custom locale profiles to specify your preferences for the date and time format, the currency symbol, and the thousands separators. Custom profiles are stored in the &hilev.&midlev.UKOBDATF data set.

Procedure

  1. In the UKOBDATF data set, create a member with the name KOBcccc, where cccc is the 4-character locale ID, for example KOBEURO for a profile with European formats.
    Use the profile viewing and cloning feature of the interface to can complete this step. For more information about profile viewing and cloning, see Profile viewing and cloning.
  2. Edit the member and modify it to reflect the user preferences.
    See Locale profile keywords for keyword descriptions and possible values.
  3. To activate the changes, log off and back on to the interface .
    Remember: If you add a new DD statement for the profile definitions, you must recycle the interface to activate the changes.

What to do next

After you create the custom profile, update any site or user profiles that you want to reference the new profile. For this example, you specify LOCALEID=EURO in the site or user profiles. Code RKANWEUR DD in your procedure and concatenate the data sets with the workspaces to it.