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Application Development

Using application development facilities, you can write your own menus, panels, and applications using the following facilities:

Network Control Language

Network Control Language (NCL) is the interpretive language that is used to develop procedures, which can be executed by your product.

Note: For more information about NCL and its features, see the Network Control Language Programming Guide and the Network Control Language Reference Guide.

REXX

Your product supports the REXX language. You can write REXX programs to perform various tasks in your product. However, there are differences in the use of the supported REXX when compared with IBM's REXX.

Note: For more information, see NetMaster REXX Guide.

Managed Object Development Services

Together with NCL, Managed Object Development Services (MODS) lets you create your own applications and develop panels to provide access to them. The following features are available:

Application Register

The definitions of all applications that are built in MODS must be defined in the application register.

Common Application Services (CAS)

A collection of high-quality, special-purpose NCL routines designed to facilitate program development.

Panel Services

A facility to create and maintain full-screen panel definitions.

Mapping Services

A facility that enables programmers to define complex data structures for use by NCL applications.

Administrative Functions

Maintains MODS control libraries, panel libraries, and object services support functions.

Note: For more information about MODS, see the Managed Object Development Services Guide.