Introduction to APPC

This section introduces the fundamental concepts of Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (APPC) in a distributed processing environment. These concepts include the following:

• APPC verbs

• Microsoft® Windows® APPC extensions

• Using APPC verbs in C programs

• Operating system considerations

  Detailed descriptions of APPC verbs are provided in:

• APPC Management Verbs

• APPC TP Verbs

• APPC Conversation Verbs

  APPC is an application programming interface (API) that enables peer-to-peer communications in a Systems Network Architecture (SNA) environment. Through APPC, programs distributed across a network can work together, communicating with each other and exchanging data, to accomplish a single processing task such as querying a remote database, copying a remote file, or sending and receiving electronic mail.

  This section contains:

• APPC Verb Overview

• APPC Verb Summary

• Windows APPC Overview

• Using APPC Verbs in C Programs

• Programming Considerations