Common Services Entry Points

Personal Communications and Communications Server provide a common services programming interface. This API consists of common services verbs (CSVs) that can be used by application programs that use Personal Communications APIs.

Any Personal Communications and Communications Server application program can use these common services verbs to do one or more of the following things:
  • Maintain a code page translation table for single byte languages (GET_CP_CONVERT_TABLE)
  • Convert an ASCII string to EBCDIC or EBCDIC to ASCII (CONVERT)
  • Convert a double byte character string from one code page to another (TRNSDT)
Note:
Included in the chapters of Part 3 of this book is information on the Common Services API provided by the following systems:
  • Communications Server running on Windows®
  • SNA API clients for Win32® platforms that are delivered with the Communications Server product
  • Personal Communications for Windows
When there are differences between the support provided by these systems, it is noted.