Customizing TSO/E for different languages

TSO/E takes advantage of the MVS™ message service to let you provide TSO/E information to users in their national language. TSO/E information includes:

TSO/E messages
Help text for TSO/E commands
The TRANSMIT command full-screen panel header information and PF key definitions

In addition, the TSO/E CONSOLE command supports the display of translated system messages issued during an extended MCS console session.

Note: The Session Manager does not support the display of translated information.

To provide translated messages and information (HELP and TRANSMIT), you need to initialize and activate the MVS message service and set up languages for users. For help information, you also need to specify the help data sets to be used for each language in the IKJTSOxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB.

This section describes how you can:

Initialize and activate the MVS message service
Specify help data sets for different languages
Set up languages for users