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IBM gave Permission to repost documentation from the OS/2 Toolkit:

• IBM Copyright Permission #25218
• IBM External Submission #24167

IBM gave permission to republish the article contents of the IBM Developer Connections.

• IBM Copyright Permission #21362

IBM gave permission to republish the article contents of the IBM DDK 2004 and related documentation.

• IBM Copyright Permission #21953

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Documentation

Personal Systems Magazine (IBM External Submission #26413

• SOM Collection Classes: A Primer for the VisualAge COBOL Programmer by Robert A. Pittman, Jr. (Jul 1996)
• OS/2 Warp Server: An Architectural Primer by Philip Lieberman (Jun 1996)
• Building Object-Oriented Applications from Existing C Code by Gregory Piamonte(Aug 1996)
• Enabling Industrial-Strength OO Applications with SOM and CORBAservices by Geoff Hambrick (Apr 1996)
• IBM System Object Model--The Wave of the Future (and Now!) by Rick Weaver (Apr 1996)
• Why SOM? by Brian Curran (Apr 1996)
• OpenDoc and Human-Computer Interaction by Ralph M. Pipitone (Oct 1995)
• Getting Object-Oriented with DB2 for OS/2 V2.1 By Rick Weaver (Aug 1995)
• OS/2 Warp 4: Java by Andrew Johnson & Matthew Vaughton (Dec 1996)
• OS/2 Warp 4: Develop with Java by Herman Rodriguez, Miguel Sang (Dec 1996)

IBM OS/2 Toolkit Information (IBM Copyright Permission #25218)

• IBM OS/2 16/32-bit Linear eXecutable Module Format (LX) Specification, PDF
• Programming Guide and Reference Addendum - addendum.inf, addendum.pdf
• ALP Programming Guide and Reference - alpref.inf
• DNAL1MST.INF SystemView Agent DMI Programmer's Guide
• DPIL1MST.INF SystemView Agent DMI Programmer's Guide
• MMAPG.INF Multimedia Application Programming Guide
• Multimedia Programming Reference
• MMSSPG.INF Multimedia Subsystem Programming Guide
• NMAKE32.INF Enhanced Program Maintenance Utility (NMAKE32)
• OGLBASE.INF OpenGL Programming Reference
• OMFREF.HTM IBM OS/2 16/32-bit Object Module Format (OMF) Specification
• OPEN32.INF Open32 Programming Guide and Reference
• PDGUIDE.INF Problem Determination Programmer's Guide
• PMBDTECH.INF Bidirectional Language Programming Guide
• RC16.INF Legacy Resource Compiler Guide and Reference
• REXXPG.INF Object REXX Programming Guide
• RXSTRING.TXT RXSTRING Library of Functions
• SG244640.INF The OS/2 Debugging Handbook (SG24-4640-00)
• SRVFPQR.INF OS/2 Server Family Programming GReference
• TCPPR.INF TCP/IP Version 4.21 Programming Reference
• TOOLSREF.INF Tools Reference
• UNIAPI.htm Unicode Programming Reference
• USETLKT.INF Using Your Toolkit
• XPG4REF.INF C Library Reference

IBM OS/2 Toolkit Information (IBM External Submission #24167)

• Control Program Programming Guide and Reference
• GPI Guide and Reference
• Presentation Manager Programming Guide and Reference
• System Object Model Programming Guide
• System Object Model Programming Reference
• Workplace Shell Programming Reference
• Workplace Shell Programming Guide

IBM Device Driver Development Kit 2004 (IBM External Submission #21953)

Title	Year	Document Ref.	Links
32bits Omni Presentation Driver		OMNI.INF	PDF, INF
AP2 - Automated Audio Device Driver Test Tool		AP2.INF	PDF, INF
Assembly Language Processor (ALP) Assembler Reference		ALPREF.INF	PDF, INF
Basic USB Device Driver Stack for OS/2 Warp Programmer’s Reference. Version 1.1	2002
Display Device Driver Reference for OS/2		DISPLAY.INF	PDF, INF
Graphics Adapter Device Driver Reference		GRADD.INF	PDF, INF
Input Output Device Driver Reference		IN_OUT.INF	PDF, INF
LAN Device Driver Documentation
MMPM/2 Device Driver Reference		MMPM2.INF	PDF, INF
Object-Oriented OS2 Audio Device Driver Samples
Pen for OS2 Device Driver Reference	1996	PENOS2.INF	PDF, INF
Physical Device Driver Reference		PDDREF.INF	PDF, INF
Presentation Device Driver Reference for OS2		PDRREF.INF	PDF, INF
Printer Device Driver Reference for OS/2		PRINTER.INF	PDF, INF
Storage Device Driver Reference		STORAGE.INF	PDF, INF
Using Your DDK		USEDDK.INF	PDF, INF
Virtual Device Driver Reference for OS/2		VDDREF.INF	PDF, INF

IBM OS/2 Development Related Contents

• OS/2 Application Binary Interface for PowerPC (32-bit) - (Dec 8, 1995)
• IBM OS/2 16/32-bit Object Module Format (OMF) and Linear eXecutable Module Format (LX) - (Oct 9, 1996)
• The System Object Model (SOM) and the Component Object Model (COM): A comparison of technologies summarized - (May 16, 1994)
• OpenDoc/SOM and OLE/COM Presentation by Berthold Reinwald
• Object-Oriented Programming in OS/2 2.0 Using SOM by Roger Sessions and Nurcan Coskun
• OS/2 Network Related Presentations

Links

IBM Solution Developer Support:

• How to convert from 2.1 base video into 3.0 base video in order to take advantage of the monitor configuration feature of the 3.0 system icon
• Device Drivers for OS/2 2.x are compatible with OS/2 Warp V3 and do not require additional modifications.
• Driver Development Support Center's (DDSC) Cyber DUDE
• GRADD FAQ
• OS/2 keyboard translate table design
• Developing NDIS LAN device drivers FAQ
• How do I get started writing OS/2 device drivers
• OS/2 OO Books: A Roadmap
• Video Playback - No Audio Bug
• Some Watcom Compiler Tips from DUDE Users

DDK:

• Introduction to DASD, SCSI and CD-ROM Programming Interfases
• Developer Guide for OS/2 for SMP Version 2.11
• OS/2 Resource Manager Architecture
• Device Driver FAQ
• OS/2 Hardware Compatibility List 1995
• OS/2 & LAN Systems Development Tools Guide
• New XGA Display Driver Entry Points
• New VGA Display Driver Entry Points
• Developer Connection DDK Transitional Questions and Answers
• NDIS Implementation Information for IBM LAN Systems - OS/2 Messaging and National Language Support
• INSTALLABLE FILE SYSTEMS FOR OS/2 VERSION 2.0
• Sample Code Chunks, From a Device Driver

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