Micro Focus Server Express
Server Express User Guide
MERANT
Issue 1
January 1999
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Preface
This book explains concepts of Server Express, and how to compile, link and
run programs.
You should be familiar with the COBOL language and with your operating
system. You should read the Getting
Started before reading this book.
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.
The notation used in the books is as follows:
- Enter refers to the carriage-return or Enter key. Where commands to
be typed are shown, the Enter key is not shown. It is treated as implicit that
the Enter key must be pressed at the end of the line.
- Hexadecimal numbers are enclosed in quotation marks and preceded by a
lower-case "x" or "h"; for example, x"9D", h"03FF".
The "x" is used when the hexadecimal number represents a character
string; the "h" when it represents a numerical value.
- With COMP-X and COMP-5, PIC X is used rather than PIC 99. Unlike PIC 99,
PIC X shows the length of the data item directly and so demonstrates more
clearly the use of COMP-X, which is to define a binary item of the specified
number of bytes.
The notation used to describe the format of command lines is as follows:
- Words printed in italics are generic terms representing names to be devised
by you.
- Words printed in nonitalic characters are the actual words you must enter.
You must type them in upper or lower case as shown.
- Square brackets [ ] mean the material inside them is optional.
- Braces { } mean you must choose from the options inside them. If there is
only one option in the braces, they mean repetition.
- An ellipsis (...) following { } or [ ] means you can repeat the material
inside them. The number of repetitions allowed is unlimited unless otherwise
stated. Square brackets [ ] with an ellipsis mean you can omit the material
altogether.
- If a command line does not fit across the page, it is continued on the next
line; the continuation line is indented.
- The books may refer you to the Release Notes for details
specific to a particular UNIX platform.
- All command line formats and examples are for the standard UNIX shell, the
Bourne shell. If you are using another shell, see your UNIX documentation for
the appropriate formats.
- Where examples showing environment variables do not
specifically show them being exported to the shell, it is treated as implicit
that they are exported.
- Some keystrokes using function keys or the Alt or Ctrl keys
are not available on all UNIX platforms. This book contains a
UNIX
key usage chart, listing how the keystrokes shown in the books map onto
actual keystrokes.
- F1=Help appears on every menu in character-mode Micro Focus
software. It invokes a help screen describing the current menu. F1=Help
is not described in the documentation.
- What appears on your screen may differ in minor ways (for example, version
numbers) from that illustrated in the books. This will not affect the operation
of your software.