LAN, WAN, or Internet

Because the Internet is a large TCP/IP network, you can design an Internet configuration using any of our networking or data access technologies. The CGI technology was designed for communicating with Web browsers, but you can use our standard technologies to access applications and data across the Internet outside of the World Wide Web.

• Our AcuServer® remote file server can provide access to Vision data over the Internet.
• Our AcuConnect® remote application server can provide access to server-resident COBOL programs over the Internet, even programs that are distributed across a number of different servers.
• Our AcuXDBC™ interface can give users of ODBC and JDBC applications access to Vision data over the Internet. AcuXDBC is combined with AcuXDBC Server for remote processing of SQL requests.
• Our Acu4GL® interface and AcuSQL® precompiler can provide access to relational databases over the Internet.
• Our AcuXML interface or C$XML library routine can be used to provide access to XML documents over the Internet.

The procedures for using these technologies on the Internet are not much different from the procedures outlined in the product user's guides for local- and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs). Special Internet considerations are discussed in this chapter.

Please note that when accessing extend products on remote servers via the Internet or a virtual private network, products or technologies from third-party vendors such as Microsoft may be invoked. Carefully review any license agreements from these third-party vendors before proceeding with the remote connection.