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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
- 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).
  - Setting up the security environment by using RACF® or an equivalent security product
  - Unprotected functions and profile names for protected functions
  - Setting up the security environment for IBM® MQ
    Z Data Tools provides security features to secure access to MQ resources when using Z Data Tools functions.
- 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

Controlling the use of the PL/I compiler

A FACILITY CLASS profile is provided to allow you to control access to a licensed site PL/I compiler, IBMZPLI:

 FILEM.PLI.EXTERNAL

If a user ID running Z Data Tools has CONTROL access or higher to this profile, Z Data Tools always uses the licensed site PL/I compiler, if available, to compile templates from PL/I copybooks.

If the profile does not exist, or if the user ID has less than CONTROL access to the profile, Z Data Tools uses the Z Data Tools PL/I compiler.

For more information, see Using a licensed site PL/I compiler and Customizing for processing PL/I include books.

To determine whether the user ID has access to the profile, Z Data Tools issues RACROUTE requests with STATUS=ACCESS to the FACILITY profiles.

When RACF® is used, the STATUS=ACCESS request works as documented. No security-related logging or abends occur, even if the user ID does not have access to the profile.

When a non-RACF security product, such as ACF2, is used, an ABEND S047 might occur in response to the RACROUTE request. If this occurs, consult the security product documentation and make the required changes.