About The AFTP Guide

The Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (APPC) Application Suite provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to its APPC File Transfer Protocol (AFTP) functions. This guide provides the information you will need to write an application program to implement AFTP client functions. It is written for application programmers, and assumes that you are familiar with writing C-language applications. Although the APPC Application Suite API is based on APPC and the Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C), you do not need to know these concepts to successfully write applications based on this API.

This guide covers the following topics:

About the AFTP API

Describes constants, types, conventions, and development issues for the AFTP API that are not standard to C programming. Provides an overview of AFTP API calls.

AFTP API Call Reference

Provides an alphabetic reference for all of the AFTP API calls, including code fragments illustrating the use of each call.

AFTP Return Codes

Lists the AFTP API return codes and their meanings.

Entry Point Mappings

Lists the entry point associated with each AFTP API call.

Sample Program for AFTP API

Provides sample code that gets a file from a remote machine.