Introduction

In this chapter you will learn how to create, store, start, and stop sample programs (sometimes called "scripts") that introduce essential ACL/E components. As you analyze these sample programs, you also can do exercises to modify and expand these programs. In this way, you can learn the basic concepts of ACL/E programming without concerning yourself with details and exceptions. At the same time, you can refer to other places in the guide where topics are explained in more detail.

Although the tutorial programs do not illustrate ACL/E's full power, they provide a firm foundation in its syntax and semantics as well as in the major applications of ACL/E programs.

After you are familiar with these fundamentals, you will be able to master the more advanced material presented later in this guide. And you will be ready to put ACL/E to work in your own scenarios.

To make signon and signoff programs execute automatically, you add them to users' application session definitions. For more information, see the chapter Working With CA TPX.

Unless instructed otherwise, you should run the sample programs described in this guide from a CA TPX Notepad session.