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Appendix A. Performing Tasks Using APIs—Examples

This appendix contains the following examples of using multiple APIs to tasks:

Ÿ	Packaging your	own	software products
Ÿ	Retrieving a	file	description to a user space

ŸUsing data queues versus user queues

Packaging Your Own Software Products

You can define, create, distribute, and maintain your own product us following demonstrates how you can use the APIs to package a product the way IBM packages products.

The example product being packaged in this example is called ABC Prod product is made up of one library, ABC, with no options off of this Product consists of the following objects:

Figure

A-1. ABC Software

Packaging

Number

Object Name

Object

Type

Text

Description

1

ABCPGMMRM1

*PGM

MRM

1

preprocessing

program

2

ABCPGMMRM2

*PGM

MRM

postprocessing

program

3

ABCPGMMRI1

*PGM

MRI

2

preprocessing

program

4

ABCPGMMRI2

*PGM

MRI

postprocessing

program

5

ABCPGM

*PGM

CPP

3 for

ABC

command

6

QCLSRC

*FILE(SRCPF)

Source

physical

file

7

ABCDSPF

*FILE(DSPF)

Display

file

8

ABCPF

*FILE(PF)

Physical

file

9

ABCMSG

*MSGF

Message

file

10

ABC

*CMD

Command

for

ABC

Product

11

ABCPNLGRP

*PNLGRP

Panels

for

ABC

12

ABC0050

*PRDDFN

Product

definition

13

ABC0029

*PRDLOD

Product

load

for

MRI

14

ABC0050

*PRDLOD

Product

load

for

MRM

15

ABC

*LIB

ABC

Product

Note:

1.Machine readable material

2.Machine readable information

3.Command processing program

To package		a	product,	first	you	create all of the objects (number
number	15 in		Figure A-1)	that	will	comprise	your product. (“CL Program fo
ating	Objects		and Library for Packaging a				Product” on page A-2 shows
that	creates		the objects.) After your objects are created, you d
“Program for		Packaging a		Product—OPM		RPG Example” on page A-3.

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