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Customizing Z Data Tools
Customizing the operating environment for Z Data Tools
Enabling Z Data Tools to work with certain products
Customizing for processing COBOL copybooks
To use the view, edit, copy, print, or data create functions with a COBOL copybook, you need to make a COBOL compiler available to Z Data Tools.
Using the Z Data Tools COBOL compiler

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These topics provide information needed to plan for, customize, maintain, and diagnose problems with HCL Z Data Tools.
Summary of changes
Customizing Z Data Tools
- Preparing to customize Z Data Tools
- Customizing the operating environment for Z Data Tools
  - License and enable Z Data Tools
  - Modifying the ISPF environment
    To make it easy to start Z Data Tools under ISPF, configure your ISPF environment as described in the following sections.
  - Enabling Z Data Tools to work with certain products
    - Enabling WebSphere® MQ support
      To access WebSphere® MQ queue managers and queue contents on the local z/OS® system where Z Data Tools is running, the WebSphere MQ libraries must be made available to Z Data Tools and users must be granted read and update access.
    - Customizing for processing COBOL copybooks
      To use the view, edit, copy, print, or data create functions with a COBOL copybook, you need to make a COBOL compiler available to Z Data Tools.
      - Using the Z Data Tools COBOL compiler
        Authorizing the COBOL compiler library for batch processing
        Suppressing COBOL compiler warning messages
        Using COBOL compiler options with Z Data Tools
      - Using a licensed site COBOL compiler
        By default, the Z Data Tools internal compiler will be used.
    - Customizing for processing PL/I include books
    - Customizing for processing HLASM copybooks
    - Customizing to use DFSORT to improve Z Data Tools performance
      Z Data Tools can use DFSORT to improve the performance of the Data Set Copy and Data Set Print functions under ISPF and in batch.
    - Binding Db2® to use Z Data Tools object access method (OAM) functions
  - Disabling Websphere MQ feature by system name
  - Running Z Data Tools with APF-authorization
  - Language Environment® considerations
- Customizing Z Data Tools
- Customizing the Z Data Tools security environment
  Z Data Tools provides security for system-oriented functions through RACF® (or an equivalent security product).
- Customizing Z Data Tools to write audit records to SMF
- Customizing the Z Data Tools audit facility for the Z Data Tools Base component
- Customizing Z Data Tools for national languages
  You can customize Z Data Tools for national languages other than English.
- Customizing Z Data Tools Service Provider for z/OS® Connect
  Z Data Tools Service Provider for IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition enables client applications to access IBM Z data sources using z/OS Connect.
- Customizing Z Data Tools to use library management system libraries
- Customizing Z Data Tools to use the Optim™ Data Privacy Provider API
- Customizing Z Data Tools to use an I/O exit
- Customizing Z Data Tools to use a scrambling exit
- Verifying the customization of Z Data Tools
  After you have completed the initial installation and customization of Z Data Tools Base function, you can perform the following steps to verify your customization.
Customizing Z Data Tools Db2® Component
Customizing Z Data Tools IMS™ Component
Customizing Z Data Tools CICS® Component
Z Data Tools on VS Code
HCL Z Data Tools is a host component that supports a Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDE.
Preparing for Z Data Tools Remote Services
Customizing Z Common Components server
Z Data Tools options
ZDT/Db2 options
ZDT/IMS options
Z Data Tools options specified in PARMLIB members
The library management system exit
Z Data Tools audit records
Notices

Using the Z Data Tools COBOL compiler

Z Data Tools uses its internal COBOL compiler by default.

Note:

The Z Data Tools compiler requires a region size of at least 40 MB and possibly more, depending on the complexity of the copybook being compiled.

If Z Data Tools is to use its internal COBOL compiler, review the following sections for customization tasks you might need to perform. Not all the functions available using a licensed site COBOL compiler are available using the Z Data Tools compiler, and for functions that are available, the customization might differ.