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2024 October FeatureLog

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

Description

You can run certinfo against a PKCS12 (.12) file to show the primary key, the primary certificate, and any additional certificates.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.1

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.1

Audience

Administrators

Source references

D1257

You can run certinfo against a PKCS12 (.12) file to show the primary key, the primary certificate, and any additional certificates

certinfocertinfo.pyPKCS12primary keyprimary certificate
Description

The documentation now includes use cases for using replication for high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.1

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.1

Audience

Developers and Administrators

Source references

D1411

use cases for using replication for high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability

replicationuse caseshigh availabilitydisaster recoveryscalability
Description

FairCom enables applications to authorize JSON actions without the need for a username/password or client certificate using the permanentSession property. While it is slightly less secure, it allows many servers to use the same authToken (API key) to simplify session management.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.1

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.1

Audience

Administrators

Source references

D1435 and D1454

persistent sessions permanentSession property

persistent sessionpermanent sessionpermanentSessionsession and services
Description

You can now reduce the variability in performance of a client application by setting the maximum number of spin operations that a shared memory connection can use.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.1

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.1

Audience

Administrators

Source references

D1302

use SHMEM_MAX_SPIN and ctSetCommProtocolOption to control the number of spin operations that a shared memory connection can use

SHMEM_MAX_SPINctSetCommProtocolOptionmemoryspin operation
Description

The new variantFormat property allows you to specify the format in which variant fields are returned from JSON DB API "getRecords..." actions so that you can set the data format returned from a variant, such as hexadecimal, Base64, UTF-8, and the variant JSON object.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.1

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.1

Audience

Developers and Administrators

Source references

D1437

variantFormat property get records actions

variantFormatgetRecordsvariant formatvariant fieldshexadecimalBase64UTF-8