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2024 July FeatureLog

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

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Description

FairCom now provides an in-house system memory calculator that calculates a server's expected memory use. Administrators can use this new feature to help them allocate system memory to maintain high server performance.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.0

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.0

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.0

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.0

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.0

Audience

Administrators and Developers

Source references

D918

system memory calculator

system memorymemory calculator01 July 2024FeatureLog
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Description

FairCom Edgeprovides a Modbus emulator that simulates a hardware device communicating over the Modbus protocol. You can run and configure the Modbus emulator from the command line in Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Documents updated
Initial products and versions
  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

Audience

Users and Engineers

Source references

D1112

Modbus emulator

modbusemulator03 July 2024FeatureLog
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Description

The FairCom Edge Modbus connector allows users to specify the format in which their data types will be read or written and returns new exception codes to help you troubleshoot issues more easily.

FairCom has deprecated the property name modbusSlave and replaced it with the new name of modbusUnitId.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

Audience

Engineers and Users

Source references

D1115

Modbus connector enhancements

Modbusconnector16 July 2024FeatureLog
Description

The FairCom server protects against denial of service attacks by limiting the number of connections and JSON DB sessions from a single TCP/IP address and username.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions
  • FairCom DB 13.0.1

  • FairCom MQ 4.2.1

  • FairCom Edge 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG Btrieve 4.2.1

  • FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

Audience

Administrators

Source references

D1156

Prevent denial of service

prevent denial of servicecreateSession19 July 2024FeatureLog
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Description
  • The cobol_tutorial1 is a simple COBOL application that creates a data table to verify if the file system is properly running.

  • The Sqlize tutorial demonstrates how to prepare your data for SQL access so you can query COBOL data using SQL, JSON DB, JDBC, etc.

Documents updatedInitial products and versions

FairCom RTG COBOL 4.2.1

Audience

Administrators

Source references

D1125

RTG COBOL tutorials

RTG COBOLtutorials19 July 2024FeatureLog