Micro Focus Server Express™

Migration Guide

Micro Focus™
Issue 4
November 2000

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Preface

This book describes the factors you need to take into account when you are migrating applications from:

• Server Express 1.0
  
  
• Object COBOL V4.1 for UNIX
  
  
• COBOL V4.0 for UNIX

to Server Express 1.1, 2.0 or 2.0.10.

Audience

Readers are expected to be familiar with the general concepts of business computing.

Notation in this Manual

• Enter refers to the carriage return or Enter key. Where commands to be typed are shown, the Enter key is not explicitly shown; it is treated as implicit that Enter must be pressed at the end of the line.
  
  
• Hexadecimal numbers are enclosed in quotation marks and preceded by a lower-case "x"; for example, x"9D".
  
  
• The term "window" means a delineated area of the screen normally smaller than the full screen.

Command Lines

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-italics are the actual words you must enter. You must enter them in the exact case in which they appear.
  
  
• Material enclosed in square brackets [ ] is optional.
  
  
• When material is enclosed in braces { }, you must choose from the options within them. If there is only one option in the braces, the braces indicate repetition.
  
  
• The ellipses (...) follows { } or [ ] and means you can repeat the material in the { } or [ ]. The number of repetitions allowed is unlimited unless otherwise stated. If the ellipsis is used with [ ], the material can be omitted altogether.
  
  
• If a command line will 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 environment variables are exported.

• The keys described in this documentation are not available in all environments. References to pressing keys such as function or status keys imply the logical pressing and releasing of these keys rather than the physical keystrokes. A chart listing how your actual keystrokes map onto the keys shown in the documentation is provided in the appendix UNIX Key Usage Chart in your Server Express User's Guide.
  
  
• You may notice that what appears on your screen sometimes differs in minor ways from that illustrated in the manual. This will not affect the operation of your software.