Using MMSLSTxx statements

MMSLSTxx allows you to control information for each language on your system. It specifies the default language that the installation can use, the name of the installation exits, the name of the run-time message file, the name of the SYS1.PARMLIB member that controls the configuration of date and time formats, and an alternate name for the language, which is optional.

The following examples show how to use MMSLSTxx statements to specify two languages, U. S. English and Japanese. (Note that the number at the beginning of each statement is used for reference only; do not code it as part of the statement.)

Statement 1 specifies the language available for use by other MVS™ components and application programs. In the example, JPN is the language code for Japanese:

1  DEFAULTS LANGCODE(JPN)

Statements 2 and 3 specify two installation exit routines to tailor MMS processing:

2  EXIT NUMBER(1) ROUTINE(NLSEXIT1)
3  EXIT NUMBER(2) ROUTINE(NLSEXIT2)

Statements 4 and 5 describe information for two languages installed on the system:

4  LANGUAGE LANGCODE(JPN) DSN(RUNTIME.VSAM.JAPAN) CONFIG(CNLJPN01)
5  LANGUAGE LANGCODE(ENU) DSN(RUNTIME.VSAM.US) CONFIG(CNLENU01)
            NAME(AMERICAN) NAME(ENGLISH)

Statement 4 describes the language code for Japanese and names the run-time message file on the DSN parameter. It also specifies the CNLcccxx parmlib member (CNLJPN01) that contains configuration data for the display of dates and times in Japanese messages.

Statement 5 describes the language code for U. S. English and names the run-time message file on the DSN parameter. It specifies the CNLcccxx parmlib member (CNLENU01) for the display of dates and times in U. S. English. It also specifies two names for referencing the language. The first is the preferred name for the language (AMERICAN); the second is the alternate name (ENGLISH). TSO/E users can select the language using either name.