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User Guide |
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FairCom RTG COBOL Edition User's Guide |
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Developers |
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Installing and configuring FairCom RTG COBOL Edition |
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© Copyright 2024, FairCom Corporation. All rights reserved. For full information, see the FairCom Copyright Notice. |
You may notice references to “FairCom DB,” the database technology beneath FairCom RTG. Formerly called “c-treeACE®” (Advanced Core Engine), this technology is the high-performance server that replaces your COBOL file system.
The FairCom RTG® product line leverages the technology of the FairCom Database Engine. Before explaining the details of installation and configuration, this guide will describe the features common to the FairCom RTG products.
Because the FairCom RTG products are designed as direct replacements for the native file systems, they require little or no modifications to your application.
Note: FairCom RTG V3 is based on the latest version of the powerful FairCom Server. The version numbers returned from utilities may reflect the underlying core version number of this server, which is currently V12.
How FairCom RTG Empowers Your Applications
The FairCom RTG products allow you to enhance your existing COBOL applications by upgrading the native file system to the advanced FairCom Database Engine. This file system allows direct access to your files. By replacing the native COBOL file system with a specialized version of the FairCom DB Advanced Core Engine, FairCom RTG brings many of the benefits of FairCom DB to your COBOL applications:
To take advantage of the complete set of features available to FairCom DB developers, you may need to use the FairCom DB Professional SDK in addition to your COBOL application development. This allows you to use industry-standard APIs such as .NET, Java or C/C++. Contact FairCom to explore using FairCom DB Professional.
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Content: This manual contains topics to help you get up and running with your FairCom RTG product:
Audience: These topics are intended for system architects, developers, and administrators.
FairCom RTG requires very little developer effort (it is intended to require little or no changes to your application). Instead, most of your effort is in migrating your data and, if you desire SQL access, defining the record schema through an external XML file called an XDD.
For an overview of this manual and of the procedures you will perform, see the chapter titled FairCom RTG COBOL Edition Quick Start.
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FairCom RTG provides many features for the application developer. Actual features may be limited based on particular license you have purchased. The complete list includes:
Cross-platform support includes Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, AIX, HP-UX and others.
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FairCom RTG is much more than another "COBOL driver." FairCom RTG is based on the full-featured FairCom Database proven in over 45 years powering thousands of mission-critical applications such as banking and financial transaction management, aviation flight plan coordination, package tracking, materials handling and factory automation, and health care office practice management. What do these have in common? They all depend on reliable 24/7 data integrity, advanced features and never sacrificing performance. FairCom RTG delivers these same advantages to your existing COBOL applications. This list only a peek into what your legacy applications can immediately gain from FairCom RTG.
Data integrity
Data security and protection
Performance from in-memory data caching
Availability through Database Replication
Plug-ins for Advanced server side functionality
Advanced Database Features
Centralized Management
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Once you've added the many FairCom RTG server features to your application suite, you'll want to take the next step to advanced data access. FairCom RTG includes a powerful SQL engine directly over existing legacy data. No data duplication to alternate databases. No data normalization processes. No ETL, Direct SQL query reporting over YOUR data. FairCom RTG is not a read only "ODBC Driver." FairCom RTG is complete, concurrent access with read-write functionality. Locking and transaction control is completely coordinated with existing application access. See you data in a whole new view with FairCom RTG SQL.
ANSI SQL Data access
Add SQL Over Legacy Data
Full-text indexing and search
Server side processing
Data Security
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Once you centralize complete database management over your existing data, why not open it to modern APIs and frameworks, from both SQL and fast direct record access. FairCom RTG includes a full complement of drivers and APIs immediately ready to access your data. C, Java, .NET, Python? Your choice. Pick the access method best suited for your task and framework at hand.
ISAM Drivers and APIs
C, C++, Java, .NET, Python, REST
SQL Drivers
