On Sunday, 1994-10-09  Sandro Gasparetto wrote to David Noon about
"Pl/I" as follows:

SG> Well, well... You are a PL/I expert....  I love PL/I , but 
SG> I'm not sure if this is the best way to program under OS/2 .
SG> 
SG> I mean : how do you manage in GUI programs ?
SG> Is there any visual tool ? Have you to write the whole code just
SG> like in "C" ?
SG> 
SG> And what about Client-Server access to data-base ?

Hi Sandro,

You can manage GUI programs in PL/I just as you do in C. You call the
API. Or you can do it like C++, by encapsulating the API in, for
example, programmer-defined statements. IBM supplies PL/I copybooks
with all the OS/2 API routines declared for PL/I usage.

There is a tool called Visual PL/I that IBM supplies as part of the
PL/I Toolkit. The toolkit is an extra-cost option, not bundled with
the compiler. There is also Gpf-PL/I, which is like the other Gpf GUI
generators. I have only the IBM Visual PL/I. It generates all the code
required for API calls. It works with either Professional Edition or
Personal Edition of IBM's PL/I compiler.

For SQL database access you need to buy IBM PL/I for OS/2 Professional
Edition or MicroFocus PL/I for ADMVS. The latter includes IMS DL/I
support too, but it is very expensive; in fact, ADMVS is the
MicroFocus workbench that more-or-less puts MVS on your desktop. The IBM
Personal Edition of the compiler does not support SQL or DL/I.

Regards

Dave

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