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Installing the CallAPI for GCOS8

This document guides you through the new installation of a CallAPIA programming interface that processes a script in the Automation Engine system. It can be called directly from within the program itself or from a different program. for GCOS8.

AE also supplies a CallAPI for GCOS8. This interface is used to execute calls in AE from your own programs, which can be written in programming languages such as C and COBOL, for example. Additionally, the utility ucxbgc8c is available, and can be called from within a jobAn Automation Engine object type for a process that runs on a target system., for example.

Supplied Files

The files that belong to the CallAPI are found in a sub-directory of IMAGE:CALLAPI\GCOS8.

File name

Description

ucxbgc8c

Utility for calling the CallAPI

ucxbxxxc

Sample program for calling the CallAPIs

ucxgc8c.oml

OML library with CallAPI functions

ucxbgc8ci

INI file for the utility

UCMSL

Message library

callapi

JCL for calling the CallAPI

callapi_fc

JCL for calling the CallAPI (INI and SCRIPT files are allocated statically)

callapi_logon

JCL for calling the CallAPI (call with LOGON information)

scriptA particular Automation Engine object type.

AE Script file

uccall3.h

Header file for the sample program with structure and API definition

ucxbxxxc.c

Sample program for calling the CallAPI (program code C)

comp_xxx, link_xxx

JCL for compiling and creating the sample program

go_xxx

JCL for calling the sample program

go_xxx_fc

JCL for calling the sample program (INI and SCRIPT files are allocated statically)

go_xxx_logon

JCL for calling the sample program (call with LOGON information)

 


Procedure

1.

Transferring the files and setting up the system environmentAn Environment consists of Deployment Targets which represent your endpoints. Different environments are used for different phases in the software delivery cycle, for example Development, QA, Staging, Production. An environment is typically set up once and used by several applications.

Sub-Catalog

File

DATA

script, UCMSL, ucxbgc8ci

EXEC

ucxbgc8c, ucxbxxxc, ucxgc8c.oml

INC

uccall3.h

JCL

callapi, callapi_fc, callapi_logon, comp_xxx, go_xxx, go_xxx_fc, go_xxx_logon, link_xxx

SRC

ucxbxxxc.c

See also:

CallAPI for GCOS8

 


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