What is Fileshare?
A. Fileshare is an extension to the COBOL File Handler. It improves the efficiency of remote file handling by moving all file operations to the remote machine. This reduces communications traffic when files are being read or updated, and improves the performance of accessing shared data. In addition, it makes full transaction processing possible by providing commit and rollback operations, as well as rollforward recovery. It treats a set of COBOL files as a database, and provides facilities for full data integrity and security. For more information, see the Fileshare Guide.
