The LANGUAGE segment in user profiles

You can specify a user's preferred national languages in the LANGUAGE segment of the user's user profile. The languages stored in the user profiles are used by TSO, CICS®, and any other applications that use the RACROUTE REQUEST=EXTRACT macro to determine a user's preferred national languages. For specific information on how an application checks for a user's preferred national languages, see the documentation for that product.

Note: In general, you should also specify an installation default using the LANGUAGE operand of the SETROPTS command.

If individual users prefer languages other than the installation defaults, use the LANGUAGE operand of the ADDUSER or ALTUSER command to assign the preferred languages. On the LANGUAGE operand, you can specify the following information:

PRIMARY: User's preferred national language, if different from the installation default
SECONDARY: User's alternate national language, if different from the installation default

To define or change information in the LANGUAGE segment of a user profile, including your own, you must have the SPECIAL attribute or at least UPDATE authority to the segment through field-level access checking. To display information in the LANGUAGE segment of a user profile, you must have the SPECIAL attribute or at least READ authority to the segment through field-level access checking. For more information, see Field-level access checking.