Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) is an application programming interface (API) developed by IBM in 1987 to provide a platform-independent communications interface for the IBM Systems Application Architecture-based network, and to standardise programming access to SNA LU 6.2. CPI-C was part of IBM Systems Application Architecture (SAA), an attempt to standardise APIs across all IBM platforms.
It was adopted in 1992 by X/Open as an open systems standard, identified as standard C210, and documented in X/Open Developers Specification: CPI-C.
See also IBM Advanced Program-to-Program Communication
References
External links Distributed Transaction Processing: The XCPI-C Specification Version 2 CPIC Reference Manual CPI-C for MVS Chapter 21. Using CPIC-C for Java, IBM SecureWay Communications Server Programming with the CPI-C API, John Lyons, 31 May 1997