3.4 What Is AcuServer?

AcuServer provides remote data and object file access services to ACUCOBOL-GT applications that are running in TCP/IP networks under UNIX, Windows, and Extended DOS. Since AcuServer supports TCP/IP networks, it gives your applications:

• the ability to access remote files over the Internet.

• the ability to create and store data files on any UNIX or Windows machine equipped with AcuServer. Note that the same machine can be running Web server software.

• full function remote access from UNIX, Windows, and DOS clients to all Vision, relative, and sequential data files and ACUCOBOL-GT object files stored on an AcuServer server.

AcuServer does not require any changes to your existing application code. (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.)

AcuServer does not require that you recompile your existing programs. Programs compiled with any version of ACUCOBOL-GT can be executed, provided that the version of ACUCOBOL-GT runtime and AcuServer match. ACUCOBOL-GT runtimes are available for most UNIX, Windows, and DOS platforms. Contact your Acucorp customer service representative for a current list of supported platforms.