AcuConnect achieves remote application access with standard COBOL CALLs. Just as you would CALL a local application component, you can CALL a remote application component using AcuConnect. This is true whether your network is a local-area network, wide-area network or the Internet.
For example, if the name of the remote program that you want to invoke were "prog2.acu", you could embed the following statement into your client application:
CALL "prog2".
Rather than specifying the remote application path in your client program, you establish a configuration file on the client containing this information. This way, you can redistribute the application in your network as often as necessary without changing a single line in your code.
Note: This example illustrates the simplest usage of the CALL verb. More advanced CALLs are described in the AcuConnect User's Guide.