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Code/400

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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)

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License and availability

  • Discontinued commercial software.

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