Programming
Read the concept and reference information that is needed most by IBM® i application developers. Find information about developing multithreaded applications or distributed applications (using Sun TI-RPC), or access reference information about application programming interfaces (APIs) or CL commands. Use this information to understand and use the system's programming capabilities. Learn more about high-level languages such as C++, COBOL, and RPG.
- Application programming interfaces
IBM i application programming interfaces (APIs) allow your application program written in a high-level language to use specific data or functions of the IBM i operating system. - Control language
Control language (CL) allows system programmers and system administrators to write programs using IBM i commands and other IBM-supplied commands. - Communications
Find information related to application program communications among processes on a local system, or between a local system and a remote system. - Data description specifications
Data description specifications (DDS) allow you to describe data attributes in file descriptions that are external to the application program that processes the data. - Development tools
Find information about application development through the use of management tools, an adjustable scripting environment, as well as debugging programs that run in the IBM PASE for i environment. - Device
Use this information to learn how to use and program the System i® printers, displays, and tape devices. - i5/OS globalization
The operating system is designed to support the culture and languages of many countries around the world. As companies integrate e-commerce on a global scale into their fundamental business processes, their prospective customers, established customers, and active partners can take advantage of increased revenue and decreased expenses through software globalization. - IBM PASE for i
With IBM Portable Application Solutions Environment for i (PASE for i), you can port IBM AIX applications to the IBM i platform with minimal effort. - System i Access
Find application developer programming solutions to create and customize IBM i Access for Windows and IBM i Access for Web applications. Also find information on developing System i Navigator plug-ins. - Java
Find information about the IBM Developer Kit for Java™, IBM Toolbox for Java, and the Qshell command environment. Also learn about the Agent Building and Learning Environment (ABLE). - Programming languages
Use this guidance and reference information, related to high-level programming languages, for developing application programs. - Multithreaded applications
A thread is the path taken, the steps performed, and the order in which the steps are performed by a running program. - Shells and utilities
The system supports a number of different program shells. These include the Qshell, Bourne, Korn, and C Shell. - WebSphere programming
You can use IBM WebSphere® Application Server for iSeries and IBM WebSphere Application Server for IBM i to deploy and manage server-side Java applications, and use IBM WebSphere MQ to reliably integrate your applications by passing messages between applications and Web services. - XML Toolkit
The IBM XML Toolkit for System i, licensed program offering (LPO) 5733-XT2, V1R2M0, is designed to provide key development enablement components, XML parsers, to assist in the use of XML for general application or business-to-business (B2B) solutions. The XSL transformer allows you to reformat or reorganize XML documents to other formats (for example, XML or HTML). - Related information for programming
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