7.1 Programming Considerations

There are three programming issues to consider with AcuServer:

• how to modify your application to use remote name notation to access remote files
• how to minimize the work required to add or change the name of an AcuServer file server (pertinent to large or rapidly changing networks)
• how and whether to use AcuServer's multiple-record mode (pertinent to those who read a large number of sequential records without user interruption, as when generating reports).

This chapter discusses all three programming issues. In addition, it discusses restrictions to three ACUCOBOL-GT library routines of which programmers should be aware: C$COPY, C$FILEINFO, and RENAME (details in section 7.5 Restrictions to Library Functions).