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 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.

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