Bibliography
This bibliography lists printed information that you need
to use the OS/400 APIs, background information for the
functions the APIs perform, and other information rele-
vant to specific types of applications. The books are
grouped in these categories:
General-purpose books
OS/400 API books
Programming language books
If you want more information on a topic while you are
using this guide, see the
Publications Reference
,
SC41-5003, for related AS/400 publications.
General-Purpose Books
These books provide general-purpose and background
information for the OS/400 licensed program:
CL Programming
, SC41-5721, discusses OS/400
functions and concepts that are relevant to pro-
gramming.
CL Reference
, SC41-5722, provides a description of
the AS/400 control language (CL) and its com-
mands. Each command description includes a
syntax diagram, parameters, default values,
keywords, and an example.
AS/400 Licensed Internal Code Diagnostic Aids –
Volume 1
, LY44-5900, and
AS/400 Licensed
Internal Code Diagnostic Aids – Volume 2
,
LY44-5901, provide a list of available object types in
hexadecimal format for use with the object APIs.
ILE Concepts
, SC41-5606, describes the concepts
and terminology of the Integrated Language Envi-
ronment of the OS/400 operating system.
Integrated File System Introduction
, SC41-5711,
describes the concepts of the integrated file system
and briefly describes the user interfaces and pro-
gramming support for interacting with the integrated
file system.
Printer Device Programming
, SC41-5713, provides
information to help you understand and control
printing. This book provides specific information on
printing elements and concepts of the AS/400
system, printer file and print spooling support for
printing operations, and printer connectivity.
Guide to Enabling C2 Security
, SC41-0103, pro-
vides information about planning, installing, setting
up, and managing your AS/400 system to meet the
requirements for C2 security. C2 is a level of secu-
rity defined by the United States Department of
Defense.
Security – Reference
, SC41-5302, provides tech-
nical information about OS/400 security.
System Manager Use
, SC41-5321, provides infor-
mation about the commands and functions available
when the System Manager for AS/400 licensed
program is installed on one or more AS/400
systems in a network.
System Manager Use
describes packaging software products so that they
can be distributed, installed, and serviced the same
way IBM licensed programs are managed.
OS/400 API Books
These books contain OS/400 APIs:
Common Programming APIs Toolkit/400 Reference
,
SC41-4802, describes considerations for creating,
running, and debugging Common Programming
APIs Toolkit/400 (CPA) programs and provides
details on APIs supported by CPA. This book also
includes examples of CPA programs. CPA is an
optionally installable feature of OS/400.
CPI Communications Reference
, SC26-4399, pro-
vides information about writing applications that
adhere to the Systems Application Architecture
(SAA) Communications interface. The manual
defines the elements of the SAA Communications
Common Programming Interface (CPI), which pro-
vides a programming interface that allows program-
to-program communications using IBM’s Systems
Network Architecture (SNA) logical unit 6.2 (LU6.2).
DB2 for AS/400 Query Management Programming
,
SC41-5703, provides information on how to deter-
mine database files to be queried for a report,
define a structured query language (SQL) query
definition, define a report form definition, and use
and write procedures that use query management
commands. It also includes information on how to
use the query management global variable support
and understand the relationship between the
OS/400 query management and the Query/400
licensed program.
GDDM Programming Guide
, SC41-0536, provides
information about using OS/400 graphical data
display manager (GDDM) to write graphics applica-
tion programs.
Machine Interface Functional Reference
,
SC41-5810, is a comprehensive reference to
machine interface (MI) instructions.
PrintManager API Reference
, S544-3699, provides
information the user needs to create and maintain
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