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Appendix A. The IBM CICS Clients library

     

This topic lists all the IBM CICS Clients and related books and discusses the various forms in which they are available:

The headings in this topic are:


IBM CICS Clients books

The IBM CICS Clients library comprises the following books:

  • IBM CICS Clients Administration, SC33-1792.

    This book describes the administration of the IBM CICS Clients:

    • CICS Client for DOS
    • CICS Client for OS/2
    • CICS Client for Windows
    • CICS Client for Windows 95
    • CICS Client for Windows NT
    • CICS Client for Macintosh

  • IBM CICS Clients Gateways, SC33-1821.

    This book describes how to use CICS gateway for Lotus Notes and CICS Internet gateway.

  • IBM CICS Clients Messages, GC33-1793.

    This online book lists the error messages that can be generated by IBM CICS Clients and CICS gateway for Lotus Notes.

    You cannot order this book.


Other CICS publications

Related books from other CICS libraries that are included on the CD-ROM include:

  • CICS Family: Client/Server Programming, SC33-1435

    This book provides guidance and reference information about CICS Family Client/Server Programming; the External Call Interface (ECI) and the External Presentation Interface (EPI). It is intended for application designers and programmers who wish to develop client applications to use CICS systems as servers.

  • CICS Family: OO Programming in C++ for CICS Clients, SC33-1923

    This book describes how to write object oriented programs for the ECI and EPI in the C++ language.

  • CICS Family: OO Programming in BASIC for CICS Clients, SC33-1924

    This book describes how to write object oriented programs for the ECI and EPI in the BASIC language.


Viewing online information

   

IBM CICS Clients has two types of online information:

  • IPF (information presentation facility) books, supplied for all CICS clients except CICS Client for DOS and CICS Client for Macintosh

  • HTML (HyperText Markup Language) books, supplied for all CICS clients

Viewing IPF books

       

The IPF viewer contains powerful search facilities, and because all the books supplied with the IBM CICS Clients CD-ROM are built with hypertext links to each other, you can easily follow the cross references from one book to another.

You choose whether to install the IPF books during installation, as described in "Installing CICS clients". If you choose to install them, the books are readily available on your desktop.

The CICS Client for OS/2 books are in the IBM CICS Client for OS/2 folder, and the CICS Client for Windows Family books are in the respective group or folder.

If you installed a language other than US English, you may have IPF books in that language too. Although only some of the books are likely to have been translated, you will still have a full set of books in the folder. This allows you to follow hypertext links between the translated books and the US English books. You cannot tell which books have been translated until you open them.

To view an IPF book, open the folder or group and double-click on the icon for the book you want to read; each IPF book has a separate icon.

Once inside a book, you will be able to follow hypertext links to the other books in the library by double-clicking in the highlighted fields. To return from a book you have linked to, just close that book, and you will return to the first book.

To search for specific information, click on the Search push button and enter your search criteria. A panel will be presented with all search matches. Click on the one you wish to view.

Note: In Windows NT Version 4.0 and in Windows 95, it is not possible to view IPF books by selecting the relevant icon in Windows Explorer. This is because IPF books have a file type of .INF, normally associated with Setup files in these operating systems.

Viewing HTML books

             

HTML books are provided for viewing with a Web browser. You can browse the books directly from the CD-ROM, from the CD-ROM accessed over the LAN, or from a drive to which the CD-ROM has been copied with the same directory structure. Your system administrator can tell you the name of any network drive that you must connect to.

To read the HTML publications, start your browser and open the html file you require. Alternatively, for the CICS Client for Windows Family, you can open File Manager or Windows Explorer and then select the file you want to use. Your browser is then started automatically.

The files called INDEX.HTM and CCLCA700.HTM in the \CLIENTS\I86_CLNT\HTML directory are indentical and provide a list of languages into which CICS Clients are translated. When you select a language from this file, you are taken to the list of CICS Clients and CICS Family books for your language. This list is in the CCLCn800 file for each language, where n is a language identifier (see Table 19). For example the book list for French is in the CCLCF800.htm file in the \CLIENTS\I86_CLNT\HTML\FR directory.

You may find that not all of the books in the list have been translated. If you select a book that has not been translated, you are taken to the English version.

If you prefer, you can go directly to the list of books for your language. Also, you can save this file as a bookmark on your browser. You must remember, however, that if you access the file over the LAN, the file specification may change due to changes in LAN drive assignments.

You are provided with the HTML source files, which means that you can edit the HTML publications for your own purposes. If you do so, remember that you may alter the hypertext linking structure of the books. Your edited books would then have a different structure to any updated HTML publications provided by IBM.


Printing and ordering books

     

The CICS clients and associated books are supplied in PostScript format on the product CD-ROM.

The IBM CICS Clients books can be printed directly from the CD-ROM, or you can purchase printed copies from IBM.

Understanding the book file names

 

The PostScript books are in the \CLIENTS\I86_CLNT\PSBOOKS subdirectory on the CD-ROM. This subdirectory contains both US English and translated books, you therefore need to understand the file naming convention we have used for the books.

File names are PPPVLBnn, where:

PPP

Library prefix:
CCL CICS Clients
DFH CICS Family

V

The version of the product components:
C CICS Clients Version 2.0.1
Z CICS Family books

L

A one-character language code, for example 'A' for US English, see "Using language codes in file names"

B

A one-character book identifier, in the range A-Z, 0-9

nn

File maintenance level

The file type for PostScript books is .PS.

For example, the US English version of the IBM CICS Clients Administration book is CCLCAA00.PS. The same book in French is CCLCFA00.PS.

Using language codes in file names

Some of the books on the CD-ROM have been translated and these are identified by the fifth character in the file name.


Table 19. IBM CICS Clients Language codes used in file names
Language Code Language Code
Arabic 9 Italian I
Brazilian Portuguese B Japanese J
Chinese Simplified Z Korean K
Chinese Traditional T Norwegian N
Czech 1 Polish Y
Danish D Russian 5
Portuguese P Spanish S
Finnish O Swedish V
French F Turkish X
German G US English A
Hungarian 0


Table 20. IBM CICS Clients PostScript books and file names
Book title File name Pages
CICS Clients Administration CCLCAA 270
CICS Clients Messages CCLCAB 80
CICS Clients Gateways CCLCAC 40
CICS Family: Client/Server Programming DFHZAD 180
CICS Family: OO Programming in C++ for CICS Clients DFHZAI 100
CICS Family: OO Programming in BASIC for CICS Clients DFHZAJ 100
Note: The File names in this table do not include the 2-digit suffix.

Printing PostScript manuals

You can print a PostScript book from the Drives folder (OS/2), using drag and drop, if you have a printer icon on your desktop:

  1. Identify the file name of the book for your language

  2. Double click on the Drives icon

  3. Double click on your CD-ROM drive icon

  4. Double click on the PSBOOKS directory

  5. Drag the file you want to print to your PostScript printer icon

Alternatively, to print a PostScript book from the OS/2 or DOS command prompt:

  1. Identify the file name of the book, in your language

  2. Go to a command prompt

  3. Switch to the drive letter of the CD-ROM

  4. Type cd psbooks and press Enter

  5. Use the copy command to copy the file to your PostScript printer

    Note: You will need to include the file name suffix (nn) which is not shown in Table 20. All the CCL prefix books are 00, you can check the other books by issuing the dir command against the PSBOOKS directory.

Ordering books

 

You can use the order numbers shown in Appendix A. "The IBM CICS Clients library" to order publications through your IBM representative or the IBM branch office serving your locality.

To order publications in the United States dial 1-800-879-2755, or in Canada dial 1-800-IBM-4YOU.


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