Preface

This books collection is intended to help you to operate in the XFRAME 4.2.3 environment. It contains guidance about configuring and using XCICS/TS, XVSAM, XSORT, XBM, XSPOOL and all the XFRAME products.

It contains information and reference guides for both programmers and system programmers who operate in the XFRAME environment.

Who should read this book

The book collection is intended primarily for use by system and application programmers, but will also be useful to migration analysts.

What you need to know to understand this book

For all the administrative tasks such installation, configuration and operation, we assume that you have some basic knowledge of the UNIX/Linux or Windows operating system. For XCICS/TS configuration, we assume that you have some knowledge about IBM CICS (TM) administration.

For the programming tasks, we assume that you have some experience in writing CICS programs in COBOL, C or  PL/I.

Notice

For all target platforms (including Windows), the XFRAME setup directory is referenced in this documentation as $XFRAMEHOME.