Overview
Welcome to the AcuServer file server, a client/server technology that provides remote file access services to ACUCOBOL-GT® applications running on UNIX and Windows TCP/IP-based networks.
With AcuServer, your applications gain:
- The ability to create and store data files on any UNIX and Windows servers equipped with AcuServer.
- Full function remote access from UNIX and Windows clients to all Vision, relative, sequential, and object files stored on an AcuServer server.
- Full record locking support of all Vision and relative files.
- Transparent access of remote and local files.
(Some applications that contain hard-coded paths to files must be modified to use the FILE_PREFIX or CODE_PREFIX environment variable, or to include the name of the file server in the path. See Accessing Remote Files for a discussion of name strategies.
AcuServer does not require that you recompile your existing programs. Programs compiled with any version of ACUCOBOL-GT can be executed by any later version of ACUCOBOL-GT. ACUCOBOL-GT runtimes are available for most UNIX and Windows platforms. Contact our customer service representative for a current list of supported platforms.
AcuServer can be combined with other extend technologies to provide access to data in networked, client/server, and distributed computing environments. It can be used with ACUCOBOL-GT's CGI technologies to provide Internet access to data through an HTML front end, and it can be combined with AcuConnect® to facilitate file distribution and optimize network performance in a distributed computing setting.
Pictured below is a simple AcuServer network. ACUCOBOL-GT applications running on UNIX and Windows client systems access and store data files on a common UNIX or Windows file server running AcuServer. More complex networks might incorporate multiple AcuServer file servers supporting dozens of client machines running multiple applications.
