ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide
For additional information about topics related to ILE COBOL programming on
the iSeries system, refer to the following IBM iSeries publications:
- WebSphere Development Studio: Application
Development Manager User's Guide, SC09-2133-02, describes creating and managing projects defined for the
Application Development Manager feature as well as using the program to
develop applications.
- ADTS/400: Programming Development Manager, SC09-1771-00, provides information about using the Application Development
ToolSet programming development manager (PDM) to work with lists of libraries,
objects, members, and user-defined options to easily do such operations as
copy, delete, and rename. Contains activities and reference material to
help the user learn PDM. The most commonly used operations and function
keys are explained in detail using examples.
- ADTS for AS/400: Source Entry Utility, SC09-2605-00, provides information about using the Application Development
ToolSet source entry utility (SEU) to create and edit source members.
The manual explains how to start and end an SEU session and how to use the
many features of this full-screen text editor. The manual contains
examples to help both new and experienced users accomplish various editing
tasks, from the simplest line commands to using pre-defined prompts for
high-level languages and data formats.
- Application Display Programming, SC41-5715-00, provides information about:
- Using DDS to create and maintain displays for applications
- Creating and working with display files on the system
- Creating online help information
- Using UIM to define panels and dialogs for an application
- Using panel groups, records, or documents
- Backup and Recovery, SC41-5304-06, provides information about setting up and managing the
following:
- Journaling, access path protection, and commitment control
- User auxiliary storage pools (ASPs)
- Disk protection (device parity, mirrored, and checksum)
Provides performance information about backup media and save/restore
operations. Also includes advanced backup and recovery topics, such as
using save-while-active support, saving and restoring to a different release,
and programming tips and techniques.
- CICS for iSeries Application Programming Guide, SC41-5454-01, provides information on application programming for CICS(R)
for iSeries. It includes guidance and reference information on the CICS
application programming interface and system programming interface commands,
and gives general information about developing new applications and migrating
existing applications from other CICS platforms.
- CL Programming, SC41-5721-05 provides a wide-ranging discussion of iSeries programming topics
including a general discussion on objects and libraries, CL programming,
controlling flow and communicating between programs, working with objects in
CL programs, and creating CL programs. Other topics include predefined
and impromptu messages and message handling, defining and creating
user-defined commands and menus, application testing, including debug mode,
breakpoints, traces, and display functions.
- Communications Management, SC41-5406-02, provides information about work management in a communications
environment, communications status, tracing and diagnosing communications
problems, error handling and recovery, performance, and specific line speed
and subsystem storage information.
- Experience RPG IV Tutorial, GK2T-9882-00, is an interactive self-study program explaining the differences
between RPG III and RPG IV and how to work within the new ILE
environment. An accompanying workbook provides additional exercises and
doubles as a reference upon completion of the tutorial. ILE RPG
compiler code examples are shipped with the tutorial and run directly on the
iSeries.
- GDDM Programming Guide, SC41-0536-00, provides information about using OS/400 graphical data display
manager (GDDM) to write graphics application programs. Includes many
example programs and information to help users understand how the product fits
into data processing systems.
- GDDM Reference, SC41-3718-00, provides information about using OS/400 graphical data display
manager (GDDM) to write graphics application programs. This manual
provides detailed descriptions of all graphics routines available in
GDDM. Also provides information about high-level language interfaces to
GDDM.
- ICF Programming, SC41-5442-00, provides information needed to write application programs that
use iSeries communications and the OS/400 intersystem communications function
(OS/400-ICF). Also contains information on data description
specifications (DDS) keywords, system-supplied formats, return codes, file
transfer support, and program examples.
- IDDU Use, SC41-5704-00, describes how to use the iSeries interactive data definition
utility (IDDU) to describe data dictionaries, files, and records to the
system. Includes:
- An introduction to computer file and data definition concepts
- An introduction to the use of IDDU to describe the data used in queries
and documents
- Representative tasks related to creating, maintaining, and using data
dictionaries, files, record formats, and fields
- Advanced information about using IDDU to work with files created on other
systems and information about error recovery and problem prevention.
- WebSphere Development Studio: ILE C/C++
Programmer's Guide, SC09-2712-03, provides information on how to develop applications using the
ILE C compiler language. It includes information about creating,
running and debugging programs. It also includes programming
considerations for interlanguage program and procedure calls, locales,
handling exceptions, database, externally described and device files.
Some performance tips are also described. An appendix includes
information on migrating source code from EPM C/400 or System C/400 to the ILE
C compiler.
- ILE C for AS/400 Language Reference, SC09-2711-01, provides information on Machine Interface instructions
available in the ILE C compiler, that provide system-level programming
capabilities.
- WebSphere Development Studio: ILE COBOL
Reference, SC09-2539-03, provides a description of the ILE COBOL programming
language. It provides information on the structure of the ILE COBOL
programming language and the structure of an ILE COBOL source program.
It also provides a description of all Identification Division paragraphs,
Environment Division clauses, Data Division clauses, Procedure Division
statements, and Compiler-Directing statements.
- ILE Concepts, SC41-5606-06, explains concepts and terminology pertaining to the Integrated
Language Environment (ILE) architecture of the iSeries licensed
program. Topics covered include creating modules, binding, running
programs, debugging programs, and handling exceptions.
- WebSphere Development Studio: ILE RPG
Programmer's Guide, SC09-2507-04, provides information about the ILE RPG compiler
programming language, which is an implementation of the RPG IV language in the
Integrated Language Environment (ILE) on the iSeries. It includes
information on creating and running programs, with considerations for
procedure calls and interlanguage programming. The guide also covers
debugging and exception handling and explains how to use iSeries files and
devices in RPG programs. Appendixes include information on migration to
RPG IV and sample compiler listings. It is intended for people with a
basic understanding of data processing concepts and of the RPG
language.
- WebSphere Development Studio: ILE RPG
Reference, SC09-2508-04, provides information about the ILE RPG compiler
programming language. This manual describes, position by position and
keyword by keyword, the valid entries for all RPG IV specifications, and
provides a detailed description of all the operation codes and built-in
functions. This manual also contains information on the RPG logic
cycle, arrays and tables, editing functions, and indicators.
- WebSphere Development Studio: ILE RPG Reference
Summary, SX09-1315-03, provides information about the RPG III and RPG IV programming
language. This manual contains tables and lists for all specifications
and operations in both languages. A key is provided to map RPG III
specifications and operations to RPG IV specifications and operations.
- Local Device Configuration, SC41-5121-00, provides information about configuring local devices on the
iSeries server. This includes information on how to configure the
following:
- Local work station controllers (including twinaxial controllers)
- Tape controllers
- Locally attached devices (including twinaxial devices)
- Printer Device Programming, SC41-5713-05, provides information to help you understand and control
printing. Provides specific information on printing elements and
concepts of the iSeries server, printer file and print spooling support for
printing operations, and printer connectivity. Includes considerations
for using personal computers, other printing functions such as Business
Graphics Utility (BGU), advanced function printing (AFP(TM)), and examples of
working with the iSeries printing elements such as how to move spooled output
files from one output queue to a different output queue. Also includes
an appendix of control language (CL) commands used to manage printing
workload. Fonts available for use with the iSeries are also
provided. Font substitution tables provide a cross-reference of
substituted fonts if attached printers do not support application-specified
fonts.
- iSeries Security Reference, SC41-5302-06, tells how system security support can be used to protect the
system and the data from being used by people who do not have the proper
authorization, protect the data from intentional or unintentional damage or
destruction, keep security information up-to-date, and set up security on the
system.
- Software Installation, SC41-5120-06, provides step-by-step procedures for initial installation,
installing licensed programs, program temporary fixes (PTFs), and secondary
languages from IBM. This manual is also for users who already have an
iSeries server with an installed release and want to install a new
release.
- Tape and Diskette Device Programming, SC41-5716-02, provides information to help users develop and support programs
that use tape and diskette drives for I/O. Includes information on
device files and descriptions for tape and diskette devices.
For information about Systems Application Architecture (SAA) Common
Programming Interface (CPI) COBOL, refer to the following publication:
- Systems Application Architecture Common Programming Interface COBOL
Reference, SC26-4354.
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