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FairCom RTG COBOL Edition User's Guide

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FairCom RTG COBOL Edition Quick Start

This section is designed to get you up and running in a hurry.

The first steps establish FairCom RTG as your file handler. After completing these steps, your applications will have the benefits of performance and stability provided by FairCom RTG; the final step adds SQL access to your data:

FairCom RTG Setup and Installation

Data Conversion - How to migrate your data to FairCom RTG COBOL Edition

FairCom RTG Configuration - How to use the FairCom RTG Configuration Tool to edit the ctree.conf config file

FairCom RTG SQL Access - (optional) How to add SQL access to your COBOL data

Reference material:

Configuration File Elements - Understanding the elements of the config file

XDD Schema Structure - Understanding the XDD XML file used to define indexes and various record schemas present in a data file

FairCom RTG Utilities - You will need these utilities, especially ctutil and xddgen

Sample Programs - A guide to the programs in the samples directory

Performance Tuning - How to fine-tune your system to get the best performance from FairCom RTG

ACUCOBOL API for SQL Conversion Error Checking - How to programmatically check if there will be any conversion errors accessing a table from SQL

FairCom RTG COBOL Edition Directories - The files and folders in your FairCom RTG package

Logging, Error Codes, and Troubleshooting - error codes that are specific to FairCom RTG

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