Im considering using AcuServer with my application. Will it be faster or more secure than other possible approaches (such as mapped drives in Windows or Novell environments)?
Some operating environments implement aggressive file caching techniques such as mapped drives to improve file processing speed. However, errors in these buffering techniques can occasionally lead to corrupted files. AcuServer cannot always match the file processing speeds of the caching methods, but it is faster in certain situations and provides better file integrity. Following is a description of one situation in which file caching techniques were used (instead of AcuServer), and a caching error led to corrupted files. When an ACUCOBOL-GT® runtime asks that a record be rewritten to a file that is shared among multiple clients, the runtime might receive a response indicating that the operating system has correctly rewritten the record, when in fact the record may still be in a memory cache. If a second runtime (on a separate system) then asks for the same record, it will receive a copy of the unchanged record from the shared disk. When this second runtime “rewrites” the record, the d
