MERANT Micro Focus Server Express™
Utilities Handbook
MERANT™
Issue 2
January 2000
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Preface
Server Express provides a Development Environment in which various
utilities are provided to help you create and debug applications. This
book describes in detail how to use these utilities. The debugging
utility, Animator, is described in the Debugging
Handbook. Together with the Programmer's Guides
these books provide a complete reference work for Server Express.
You should be familiar with the COBOL language and with your operating
system. You should read the Getting
Started book, and be familiar with the COBOL development
cycle described in the Server
Express User's Guide before reading other books in the book
set.
In the books, unless otherwise stated, references to UNIX apply to all
operating systems that are compatible with UNIX System V, Release 4.0 or
later, complying with the System V Interface Definition (SVID).
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 non-italic characters are the actual words you must
enter. You must type them in upper-case 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.
- 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. See the appendix
UNIX
Key Usage Chart for further information on 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.