FairCom RTG V2 Update Guide

Tighter Integration with Your COBOL Applications

FairCom RTG V2 tightly integrates with your COBOL application for the best performance and data integrity ever.

This release of FairCom RTG implements many enhancements aimed at seamlessly integrating with your COBOL application. The list of new and improved features in FairCom RTG V2 goes on and on. Here is a brief summary:

• Improved updates during scans on duplicate index

  When FairCom RTG scans a file with an index that allows duplicates, a record that was changed without updating the key used for scanning is now updated only once.

• File organization specification allows you to fine-tune COBOL integration

  A new <file> configuration attribute makes it possible to specify the file organization, such as indexed file, relative file, line sequential file, record sequential file, etc.

• File locking behavior conforms to ACUCOBOL's locking

  Integration with ACUCOBOL is fine-tuned like a Swiss watch. The <runitlockdetect> setting now enforces record locks as well as file locks so it is possible, for example, to exclusively open a file twice from the same run unit.

• Better handling of index re-organization errors due to redefined schema

  Improvements in V2 better handle the situation when a directive redefines the schema and there is no valid combination of fields to compose a key.