MERANT Micro Focus Net Express™

Communications

MERANT™

Issue 3b
May 2000

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Preface

This User Guide describes the communications middleware available with Net Express.

Audience

If you are using Net Express to create Web applications, no communications programming or configuration is required.

If, however, you need to connect your client COBOL program, across a network, to a server, this User Guide explains how you can use the generic client/server binding modules to do just that.

How to Use this Manual

Chapter One, Introduction, gives a brief overview of connecting a client to a server with COBOL.

Chapter Two, Client/Server Binding, explains how you can use the client/server binding to connect a client COBOL program to a server.

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 preceeding the paragraph it applies to. For example:

  UNIX
  This paragraph only applies on UNIX systems.