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A development system for OS/2 that allows you to develop applications for IBM AS/400 minicomputers using the RPG and COBOL languages and associated tools, this is primarily intended for server development although the toolkit has some support for development of OS/2 as a front end/client capability. The system is in some ways similar to VisualAge for RPG and VisualAge COBOL with the AS/400 back end option, and appears to share a number of the back end tools.

After the release of VRPG, C/400 was shipped with runtimes to allow you to run front end programs developed for VRPG, but Code/400 features front end tools based around Workframe/2 that predate the Smalltalk based tools of the Visualage family and all in all have a more "classic" IBM & OS/2 feel to them. Unlike VRPG, C/400 was never ported to Microsoft Windows but IBM later released a development toolkit for Windows that used the same name and had similar functionality but mostly used completely different codebase for the Windows frontend than was used for the OS/2 one.

Versions

Last known version: Version 3 Release 6 - 1995

Prerequisites

OS/2 2.1 or higher
Client Access for OS/400 or Communications Manager/2 Version 1.1 or later
OS/400 Version 3 Release 6 (Program number 5716-SS1) or higher
Client Access for OS/400 (Program number 5716-XA1)

Links

A copy of IBM's old Code/400 page - From Archive.org

License and availability

Discontinued commercial software.

Publisher

IBM

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 A development system for OS/2 that allows you to develop applications for IBM [[AS/400]] minicomputers using the [[RPG]] and [[COBOL]] languages and associated tools, this is primarily intended for server development although the toolkit has some support for development of OS/2 as a front end/client capability. The system is in some ways similar to [[VisualAge for RPG]] and [[VisualAge COBOL]] with the AS/400 back end option, and appears to share a number of the back end tools.
-After the release of VRPG, C/400 was shipped with runtimes to allow you to run front end programs developed for VRPG, but Code/400 features front end tools based around [[Workframe/2]] that predate the [[Smalltalk]] based tools of the Visualage family and all in all have a more "classic" IBM & OS/2 feel to them. Unlike VRPG, C/400 was never ported to [[Microsoft Windows]].
+After the release of VRPG, C/400 was shipped with runtimes to allow you to run front end programs developed for VRPG, but Code/400 features front end tools based around [[Workframe/2]] that predate the [[Smalltalk]] based tools of the Visualage family and all in all have a more "classic" IBM & OS/2 feel to them. Unlike VRPG, C/400 was never ported to [[Microsoft Windows]] but IBM later released a development toolkit for Windows that used the same name and had similar functionality but mostly used completely different codebase for the Windows frontend than was used for the OS/2 one.
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