Building your procedural application on z/OS

The CICS®, IMS, and z/OS® publications describe how to build applications that run in these environments.

This collection of topics describes the additional tasks, and the changes to the standard tasks, that you must perform when building IBM MQ for z/OS applications for these environments. COBOL, C, C++, Assembler, and PL/I programming languages are supported. (For information about building C++ applications see Use C++.)

The tasks that you must perform to create an executable IBM MQ for z/OS application depend on both the programming language that the program is written in, and the environment in which the application will run.

In addition to coding the MQI calls in your program, add the appropriate language statements to include the IBM MQ for z/OS data definition file for the language that you are using. Make yourself familiar with the contents of these files. See IBM MQ data definition files for a full description.

Note

The name thlqual is the high-level qualifier of the installation library on z/OS.