HP-UX SNAplus2 R7 APPC Programmer's Guide

Writing Transaction Programs

Categories of APPC Verbs

2 Writing Transaction Programs

This chapter contains information about the following topics and will help you write transaction programs (TPs):

• Categories of APPC verbs

• APPC verb summary

• APPC entry points

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• HP-UX system considerations

WINDOWS

• Windows system considerations

• Conﬁguration information

• Conversation security

• Starting TPs

• LU-to-LU sessions

• Basic conversations

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• Writing TP servers

• Writing portable TPs

2.1 Categories of APPC Verbs

APPC verbs fall into the following categories:

• Control verbs, described in Chapter 3, APPC Control Verbs

• Conversation verbs, described in Chapter 4, APPC Conversation Verbs

2.1.1 Control Verbs

Control verbs start and end TPs and obtain information about the properties of TPs:

• TP_STARTED

• TP_ENDED

• RECEIVE_ALLOCATE

• GET_TP_PROPERTIES

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