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2025 April FeatureLog

View the various changes made to the FairCom documentation in the month of April

change log for April 2025

change logupdate lognew feature logApril 2025APR25
Description

You can now use the "dataPersistenceStrategy" and "immediatelyCollectDataOnStart" properties to set the input service to persist only changes to data. This addition reduces storage costs and makes events more meaningful.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom Edge 4.2.2

Audience

Users and Developers

Source references

ITG45

New "dataPersistenceStrategy" and "immediatelyCollectDataOnStart" properties.

data persistence strategydataPersistenceStrategyimmediately collect data on startimmediatelyCollectDataOnStart
Description

FairCom now supports the MTConnect protocol so that you can seamlessly access, store, transform, and write data collected from Mitsubishi PLCs and other devices.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom Edge 4.2.2

Audience

Users and Developers

Source references

ITG71 ITG72 ITG73

New MTConnect connector to access, store, transform, and write data collected from Mitsubishi PLCs

MTConnectconnectorMitsubishiPLCs
Description

You can now easily set up secure TLS communications using FairCom's setuptls.py script. We have also provided a new tutorial to help you get started quickly.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.2

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.2

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.2

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 5.0.0

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 5.0.0

Audience

Administrators

Source references

DOC1368

New tool to configure TLS communications in FairCom servers

TLSconfigure communicationssetuptls.pytls tutorial
Description

Our new tutorial shows you how to quickly and easily get a count of all records in a SQL query and use a cursor to paginate over the results efficiently.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.2

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.2

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.2

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 5.0.0

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 5.0.0

Audience

Developers

Source references

ITG100

New tutorial for counting and paginating records

Count and paginatepaginate recordscount recordstutorialhow to count recordshow to paginate records
Description

Our new Allen-Bradley tutorial shows how to quickly and easily capture, store, transform, and query data from Allen-Bradley PLCs using the EtherNet/IP protocol.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom Edge 4.2.2

Audience

Users

Source references

ITG

Our new Allen-Bradley tutorial shows how to quickly and easily capture, store, transform, and query data from Allen-Bradley PLCs using the EtherNet/IP protocol

Allen-Bradleytutorialsethernet/ip protocolAllen-Bradley PLCs
Description

Our new Siemens S7 tutorial shows how to quickly and easily capture, store, transform, and query data from Siemens S7 PLCs.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom Edge 4.2.2

Audience

Users

Source references

ITG115

Our new Siemens S7 tutorial shows how to quickly and easily capture, store, transform, and query data from Siemens S7 PLCs

Siemens S7tutorialsSiemens S7 PLCs