Replication server clients

Referring to a replication server database requires a server connection(SERVER_URL and SERVER_PORT). The connection may be defined as global option before first section or separately for each data source. As soon as a server connection has been defined, database resources are considered as server resources. In order to refer to local resources, this has to be defined explicitly:

    DICTIONARY.CONNECTION=local

Data sources to be accessed via replication server have to request replication server services via the REPLICATION_SERVER option variable

    REPLICATION_SERVER=YES

Typically, the ini-file contains a SYSTEM section to a local system database, a RESOURCE section do a local resource database and a DATABASE section with a local dictionary and a server database reference. The option name defined for the database (DATABASE.DATABASE) refers to an option variable defined in the FILE_CATALOG section of the server's ini-file.