AcuConnect® | Versatile Remote COBOL Listener

Frustrated by bottlenecks? Tired of character-based screens on UNIX® terminals? There comes a point in nearly every organization when business requirements exceed computing resources. So how do you meet the demands of your changing business without spending a lot of money? With AcuConnect—a client/server solution that lets you distribute your resources for optimal performance and functionality.

AcuConnect is a remote COBOL listener that lets you make the most efficient and strategic use of your existing computing resources. AcuConnect can be deployed in a distributed processing architecture or a thin client architecture.

In a distributed processing deployment, you can divide application processing among multiple UNIX, Linux®, and Windows® machines for optimal performance. You can perform most of your processing on the client or most on the server, or you can divide the processing any way you wish. Users or programs on client machines can launch applications on server machines, whether those servers are part of a local area network, wide area network, or accessed over the Internet. While some portions of your application continue to run on the client, the resource intensive portions run where it is most efficient—on the server.

In a thin client architecture, only the user interface portion of your application runs on the client, a 32-bit Windows machine. The rest runs on a UNIX, Linux, VMS, or Windows server where data access is local. Because only user interface commands are passed to the client, network overhead is minimized.

With AcuConnect, you can:

• Improve performance

• Lower network management costs

• Alleviate software distribution concerns

• Build a graphical front end for non-Windows applications

• Extend the life of older equipment

AcuConnect is a vital component of the extend®8 family of solutions.