iSeries Access APIs ( was RE: RPG made it into the MSDN technical glossary! )

albartell wrote:

So do the Client Access Win32 API's give me access to only SQL related
functions or can I access other object types on the i5 (i.e. data queues,
RPG programs, spool files). I am asking out of ignorance as I haven't used
them, but I am also seeing if you have ignorance of the Java Toolkit IBM has
which gives to _direct_ access to many resources on the i5.

Aaron:

See:

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/toolkit/

and

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rzahg/rzahgicprogaccess.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/2t65kw

These APIs have been around for as long as iSeries Access (Client Access) has been around. Note that these are _client_ APIs and require iSeries Access installed on the client. As such, the programming topic isn't "RPG" unless perhaps it's "Visual RPG".

The APIs on PCs is huge part of what makes iSeries Access preferable to competing products.

At times, even more interesting are some of the odd .EXEs that you can find in the iSeries (Client) Access directory under /Program Files/IBM, e.g., wrksplf.exe and lstjbl.exe.

Tom Liotta