IBM APL2 Advanced Edition 1.1

IBM APL2 Advanced Edition 1.1 ... full-function APL2 environment for the OS/2 32-bit operating system. APL2 is a programming language useful to both application program developers and interactive end-users. Data processing professionals find APL2 to be a highly productive tool for developing both commercial and scientific applications. APL2 is also considered to be extremely effective in such diverse areas as "what-if" modeling, exploratory programming, interactive computing, decision support, and data analysis.

APL2 for OS/2 is compatible with the rest of the APL2 family of products, which run on the IBM System/370 and System/390 with CMS or TSO, the IBM RISC System/6000 with AIX/6000, the Sun SPARCstation with Solaris, and personal computers with DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, or Windows 2000. All of the APL2 systems permit transparent import and export of programs and data via the ")IN" and ")OUT" commands, and so allow for a high degree of application portability.

The APL2 for OS/2 Advanced Edition includes relational database access - auxiliary processor 127 provides an interface to IBM DB2 using the SQL language; tools for writing auxiliary processors - sample processors, include files, and a server interface allow for easy implementation of custom processors, including client-server processors; performance monitor - the TIME workspace allows for analysis of APL2 programs to determine performance bottlenecks; Internet tools - NETTOOLS workspace and supporting utilities, including an HTTP 1.1 web server and client. Cooperative Processing - APL2 Advanced Edition provides the ability to distribute data and processing among multiple APL2 systems connected through TCP/IP. The APL2 systems on CMS, TSO, OS/2, Windows AIX/6000, and Sun Solaris all contain the following cooperative processing features: cross-system shared variables for synchronization and data transfer in a distributed processing environment; a TCP/IP socket interface for communicating with non-APL applications; program control of an APL2 session by another application or APL2 user; remote session manager capability.