Performing tasks using APIs

You can use APIs to perform different types of tasks.

Examples: Packaging your own software products
You can define, create, distribute, and maintain your own software product using APIs. These examples show how to use the APIs to package a product similar to the way IBM does.
Examples: Retrieving a file description to a user space
These examples show a high-level language program that uses a user space as a receiver variable by retrieving a file description to a user space. Use this approach only when your high-level language supports pointers.
Examples: Using data queues or user queues
Both data queues and user queues provide a means for one or more processes to communicate asynchronously. Both queues can be processed by first-in first-out (FIFO), last-in first-out (LIFO), or by key.

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