Information Catalog Manager Programming Guide and Reference

Chapter 3. Writing programs with the Information Catalog Manager API calls

The Information Catalog Manager provides C language API calls that let your programs use the Information Catalog Manager functions.

This chapter describes:

• What Information Catalog Manager functions you can perform using API calls
• The general structure of API calls
• How to pass data to and from the Information Catalog Manager API calls
• C language header files provided by the Information Catalog Manager
• How to write a C language program using the Information Catalog Manager
• Rules for using the Information Catalog Manager API calls
• The DG2SAMP.C sample program