Common Programming Interface for Communications explained

Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) is an application programming interface (API) developed by IBM in 1987 to provide a platform-independent communications interface for the IBM Systems Application Architecture-based network, and to standardise programming access to SNA LU 6.2.^[1] CPI-C was part of IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA), an attempt to standardise APIs across all IBM platforms.

It was adopted in 1992 by X/Open as an open systems standard, identified as standard C210, and documented in X/Open Developers Specification: CPI-C.^{[2] [3]}

See also

• IBM Advanced Program-to-Program Communication

External links

• Distributed Transaction Processing: The XCPI-C Specification Version 2
• CPIC Reference Manual
• CPI-C for MVS
• Chapter 21. Using CPIC-C for Java, IBM SecureWay Communications Server
• Programming with the CPI-C API, John Lyons, 31 May 1997

Notes and References

1. Book: Systems application architecture: common programming interface C reference . 1988 . IBM .
2. New features for CPI-C spec set for approval . . 6 December 1993 . Michael Cooney .
3. Book: X/Open Document Number: XO/DEV/90/050 . 1-872630-02-2 .