ECN-4252 IPv6 addressing support

Type of Change: Enhancement

Product: ACUCOBOL-GT

New Version: 10.0

Machines Affected: All

Description of enhancement

extend software products that use networking have been updated to allow usage of IPv6 addressing.

You can turn on IPv6 addressing support by setting the AGS_USE_IPV6 configuration variable to 1. By default, this variable will be set to 0, and IPv4 addressing will be used.

No changes are required in order to use IPv6 host names, instead of IPv4 host names.

However, additional syntax may be necessary in some cases when specifying IPv6 addresses. If the IPv6 address is specified stand-alone, without any additional notation, it is sufficient to supply just the address itself. For example:

SERVER_IP	1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888
However, if additional notation is added to the IPv6 address, square brackets must be used to identify the IPv6 address. For example:
CODE_PREFIX	*[1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888]:/usr/acu/code