Customize i5/OS PASE programs to use i5/OS functions

If you want your AIX^® application to take advantage of i5/OS™ functions that are not directly supported by system-supplied i5/OS PASE shared libraries, you need to perform some additional steps to prepare your application.

1. Code your AIX application to call any required i5/OS PASE runtime functions that coordinate your access to the i5/OS system-unique functions.
2. If you are compiling your i5/OS PASE programs on an AIX system, perform the following steps before you compile your customized application:
   1. Copy required i5/OS system-unique header files to your AIX system.
   2. Copy required i5/OS system-unique export files to your AIX system.

• Copy header files
  You can follow the instructions in this topic to copy header files from your iSeries™ server to an AIX machine.
• Copy export files
  You can follow the instructions in this topic to copy the export files from your iSeries™ server to an AIX directory.
• i5/OS PASE APIs for accessing i5/OS functions
  i5/OS PASE provides a number of APIs for accessing ILE code and other i5/OS functions. Which ones you use depends on how much preparation and structure building you want to do yourself as opposed to how much you want the compiler to do for you.