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Installing the CallAPI for GCOS8

This document guides you through the new installation of a CallAPI 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 job, for example.

Supplied Files

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

Procedure

	1.	Transferring the files and setting up the system environment

Create a catalog for the CallAPI.
This catalog should include the following sub-catalogs: DATA, EXEC, INC, JCL, OBJ, SRC and TMP.
Transfer the files to the relevant sub-catalogs on the GCOS8 computer using FTP or Glink FTP.

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

Adjust the INI file ucxbgc8ci to your system environment.

You can keep your existing INI file even if there is a new Automation Engine version. It might be required to adjust it. More detailed information is provided in the Release Notes, a collection of which is found in the manual Release Notes.