Micro Focus Server Express™

Communications

MERANT™

Issue 1
January 1999

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Preface

This book describes the communications middleware available with Server Express.

Audience

If you are using Server 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 book 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 the different methods that are available for connecting a client to a server with COBOL. Part one describes how to set up CCI. Part two explains how you can use the client/server binding to connect a client COBOL program to a server.

MERANT

MERANT was formed by combining Micro Focus and INTERSOLV. All reference to the companies Micro Focus or INTERSOLV in this book should now be taken to mean MERANT. Micro Focus is retained as the family name for the Micro Focus product set produced by MERANT.

Notation

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

• 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