IBM Version 4 manual Use, Xiii, Prerequisite, Hll, This

About

System

API

Programming

(SC41-5800)

This

book

provides

introductory,

conceptual,

and

and

Related

guidance

information about

how

to use

Prerequisite

OS/400

Information

application programming interfaces (APIs) with

your application programs. It includes

examples

and

discusses

the

following:

For information about other AS/400 publications

Ÿ

Benefits

of

using

APIs

(except

Advanced

36),

see

either

of

the fo

Ÿ

The Publications

Referencebook,

SC41-5003,

Ÿ

When

to

use

APIs

versus

CL

commands

Ÿ

How

to

locate

an

API Systemin theAPI

Ref-

Ÿ

in

the

AS/400

Softcopy

Library.

erence book,

SC41-5801

The AS/400

Information

Directory, a

unique,

Ÿ

Which

high-level

language

(HLL)

to

use

multimedia

interface

to

a

searchable

datab

for

APIs

that

contains

descriptions

of

titles

availab

Ÿ

Various

API

environments

from

IBM

or

from selected other

publishers

Ÿ Common

information

across

object

program

The

AS/400

Information

Directoryis shipped

model (OPM) APIs and Integrated

Language with

the OS/400 operating system at no

Environment

(ILE)

APIs

charge.

Ÿ

Characteristics and use of list

APIs

Ÿ

Differences between OPM and ILE

APIs

Information

Available

on

the

Ÿ

Machine

interface

(MI)

programming

Ÿ

Why

you

might

want

to

make

use

of

World

Wide

Web

various

OS/400

APIs

Ÿ

Tips

for

common

API

programming

errors

More

AS/400

information is available on the

World

Wide Web. You can access this information fr

This

book

provides

introductory

and

guidance

AS/400

home

page,

which is

at

the

followin

the

information

only;

it

does

not

contain

API

reference

uniform resource locator (URL) address:

information. For

reference

information, see

the

System

API

Referencebook.

http://www.as4ðð.ibm.com

For

a

list

of

related

publications,

see

Select

the

Information

Desk,

and

you

will

be

the

a

variety

of

AS/400

information

topi

“Bibliography” on

page H-1.

to

access

from

that

page.

Who

Should

Use

This

Book

This book is intended for experienced application

programmers

who

are

developing

system-level

and

other

OS/400

applications.

 Copyright IBM Corp. 1997

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