Accessing remote files requires that your application refer to them with remote name notation. The ACUCOBOL-GT runtime looks for remote name notation to identify requests to AcuServer. Remote name notation has the following format:
@server-name:path-name
I/O requests to files prepended with "@server-name:path-name" are routed to AcuServer on the host specified by server-name. AcuServer looks for the named file in the directory specified by path-name, for example:
@condor:/usr/acct/inventory
To add a remote path to FILE-PREFIX or CODE-PREFIX, use the format:
FILE-PREFIX @server-name:path-name CODE-PREFIX @server-name:path-name
As an alternative to FILE-PREFIX, you can define file name aliases in the runtime configuration file. A file name alias is a string that will replace the literal name in the ASSIGN TO clause of a SELECT statement. For example:
input-output section.
file-control.
select idx-file
assign to disk "IDXDAT"
binary sequential
status is idx-status.
To define an alias for "IDXDAT" you could add the following line to your runtime configuration file:
IDXDAT @condor:/usr/data/index_data