AcuConnectTM is a client/server product that provides remote access to ACUCOBOL-GT applications. With AcuConnect, users or programs on client machines can launch applications on server machines, whether those servers are part of a local area network, wide area network, or global Internet. While some portions of your application continue to run on the client (e.g., the user interface, interactive programs, etc.), the resource-intensive portion runs where it is most efficient: on the server. Standard COBOL-CALL syntax provides the mechanism that launches portions of the application on a remote machine.
Should you decide to run your programs on server1 one day and server2 the next, you can do so without making any changes to the application code. You can even run the application locally if you choose, or "daisy chain" applications together on multiple servers.
With server programs written accordingly, AcuConnect can also provide you with access to Vision data. If the data is on the same remote server as AcuConnect, no special software is required to access the data from a local client. If the data is on a separate, data server, AcuConnect works in tandem with Acucorp's remote file server, AcuServer, to provide seamless data access. AcuConnect can also work with Acu4GL, Acucorp's COBOL-to-RDBMS bridge, to provide seamless access to relational data wherever it resides.
By allowing you to distribute processing between the client and server, AcuConnect lets you to leverage your computing resources to the fullest in a true distributed computing environment. For example, with AcuConnect, you can take advantage of the power of your server machines while utilizing inexpensive client machines. AcuConnect: