Temenos T24 Infobasic Program

This infobasic tutorial will tell you how to write a " Hello World! " program in temenos's infobasic

Program to display "Hello World!"

Step 1

Write a program to display the string “HELLO WORLD” and store it under the BP directory.

Consolidated Solution

JED BP HELLO

New record.

PROGRAM HELLO

CRT "HELLO WORLD"

END

"HELLO" filed in file "BP".

JED is the jBASE editor.

Step 2

Compile and catalog the program. Since this is a local program, the executable needs to go to "bin" and not "globusbin". Therefore check the value of JBCDEV_BIN. If it is pointing to any other directory other than bin change it to point to bin.

echo $JBCDEV_BIN

Note the output. If it is anything other than the bin directory then change the value of JBCDEV_BIN as follows

export JBCDEV_BIN=$HOME/bin

Please note that the above statement will only change the value of JBCDEV_BIN for the current session. If you want this change to be permanent, then make the change in the .profile file, logout and login for the change the take effect.
Please ensure that PATH first points to $HOME/bin, as, if there is a program with the same name and its executable resides in "globusbin" or any other directory that is specified first in PATH, then that program only would get executed.

EB.COMPILE BP HELLO 

Up mentions is the command to compile and catalog a program. BP is the source directory name where the source code of the program resides.

Step 3

Execute the program by typing the following statement at the database prompt.

Jsh-->HELLO

Output of programs is HELLO WORLD

Congratulation you successfully write an infobasic program.

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