EPI support classes

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The CICS® Transaction Gateway EPI support classes make it simpler for a Java™ programmer to access the facilities that the EPI provides:

You do not need a detailed knowledge of 3270 data streams. EPI support classes provide higher-level constructs for handling 3270 data streams:

Note: These classes do not contain any specific support for 3270 data streams that contain DBCS fields. Data streams with a mixture of DBCS and SBCS fields are not supported.

The BMS conversion utility is a tool for statically producing Java class source code from a CICS BMS map set. See Converting BMS maps and using the Map class.

The EPI support classes are similar to the C++ EPI classes in that the objects required and the methods to manipulate them are similar.

In the examples in this chapter, statements similar to the following are assumed:

import com.ibm.ctg.epi.*; import java.io.*;