This chapter describes the characteristics of the IMS component of VisualAge Smalltalk Server. Using this information, you can set up your workstation and the host to begin using IMS calls written in Smalltalk. Also included is the process by which you can code and test a Smalltalk application on the workstation.
For versions prior to Version 6.0, on IMS the millisecondClockValue method returned the application CPU usage time.
The following major topics are available: