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Summary of changes
About this document
These topics provide information needed to plan for, customize, maintain, and diagnose problems with HCL Z Data Tools.
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
    - Z Data Tools supported software environments
    - 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.
    - Customizing for processing PL/I include books
      - Using a licensed site PL/I compiler
        Adding the PL/I compiler library to the LINKLIST
        Adding the PL/I compiler library to the batch JCL skeletons
        Authorizing the PL/I compiler library for batch processing
        Suppressing PL/I compiler warning messages
    - 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 various interfaces such as Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDEs.
Z Data Tools on Eclipse
Z Data Tools plug-in for Eclipse, when used with an Eclipse-based platform such as IBM® Explorer for z/OS® or IBM Developer for z/OS, provides easy access through a graphical user interface (GUI) on the workstation to HCL Z Data Tools.
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

Authorizing the PL/I compiler library for batch processing

If Z Data Tools runs APF-authorized in batch mode and you use PL/I copybook templates, you must also authorize the PL/I compiler library.

Alternatively, run Z Data Tools batch jobs without APF authorization.

If the PL/I compiler library is not authorized and is included in the JOBLIB or STEPLIB concatenation with the Z Data Tools load library, Z Data Tools does not run APF-authorized in batch mode.