IBM System i APIs at Work

Product Description Look Inside the Book Author Bio Specifications This is a monster of a book written by a giant of an expert. In this 700 page book, API expert Bruce Vining puts the definitive API resource in your hands. While APIs are powerful tools used to solve business problems, the amount of detail needed to implement them is more than the business programmer usually knows. You may be familiar with the use of APIs, but are you taking full advantage of them in your application coding? This second edition of the previously bestselling first edition is your guide to making sense, and effectively mastering, the APIs available with System i. Author Bruce Vining is a member of the Rochester Design Control Group in IBM, where he is responsible for the design and implementation of all System i APIs. Who better to explain a wide variety of APIs, including list APIs, APIs that work with user spaces, APIs to retrieve system values, job and job queue information APIs, APIs to work wit