Overview

Fileshare is best suited to applications that share data files, concurrently, between many users, across a network. It supports all of the functionality provided by the base COBOL file handling system and provides several additional features:

• Reduced network traffic
• Transaction processing
• Rollforward recovery logging
• Logon and file open security checks

The ability of any one application to take advantage of these features depends on:

• The way the application processes the shared data files
• The type of data files the application shares
• The operating system on which the Fileshare Server is running
• The communications protocol being used between the Fileshare Client and the Fileshare Server

You do not need to make any program source code changes to use the basic Fileshare system. Source code changes are only needed to take advantage of some of the advanced features provided by Fileshare.