Micro Focus Mainframe Express™

Fileshare User Guide

MERANT™

Issue 4a
June 1999

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Preface

Fileshare is a client/server system designed to provide more efficient processing of data files that are accessed concurrently, across a network, by a large number of users.

In addition, Fileshare offers features that are not available with the base COBOL file handler including transaction processing and rollforward recovery logging.

Audience

In Mainframe Express, Fileshare is supplied solely for the use of some of the components of the system. This guide will assist you if you have any problems setting up Fileshare for these components to use.

Writing applications to use Fileshare is not supported in Mainframe Express. You must use Micro Focus NetExpress to write such applications. Please see your sales representative for more information about NetExpress.

Notation

The following type styles and conventions have been used in this User Guide:

• Text that you type is shown like this:

  cat script_name | more

  The italic text denotes a variable that you type as part of the command.

• Text in command lines or code examples that is optional is shown in square brackets. In the following example, the expression can specify that the column_name is like the pattern_value, or is not like the pattern_value, depending on the absence or presence of the optional word NOT:

  column_name [NOT] LIKE pattern_value

• Sections or paragraphs that apply only to a particular model or operating system are identified by a bold italic heading immediately preceding the paragraph it applies to. For example:

  UNIX
  This paragraph only applies on UNIX systems.