Chapter 28. Building your application on OS/400

The iSeries publications describe how to build executable applications from the programs you write, to run with OS/400 on iSeries or AS/400 systems. This chapter describes the additional tasks, and the changes to the standard tasks, you must perform when building WebSphere MQ for iSeries applications to run on OS/400 systems. COBOL, C, C++, Java and RPG programming languages are supported. For information about preparing your C++ programs, see the WebSphere MQ Using C++. For information about preparing your Java programs, see the WebSphere MQ Using Java.

The tasks you must perform to create an executable WebSphere MQ for iSeries application depend on the programming language the source code is written in. In addition to coding the MQI calls in your source code, you must add the appropriate language statements to include the WebSphere MQ for iSeries data definition files for the language you are using. You should make yourself familiar with the contents of these files. See Appendix F, WebSphere MQ data definition files for a full description.