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Sample Cooperative Application

This application retrieves employee information from the database. A user on the PC uses Program A (the client) to send an employee ID to the mainframe. Dialog B (the server) on the mainframe returns employee information to the PC.

The flowchart below describes the flow of information in the cooperative application. The communication commands in Program A and Dialog B are labeled in sequence (A1 through A8 and B1 through B6).