EMS FastStart Manual

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About This Manual
This manual provides information about the EMS FastStart program including
installation, event message design, instructions for running the program and customizing
EMS FastStart to fit the specific needs of your application. In addition, this manual
covers event message design to help you make the best use of the EMS FastStart
program. The code examples in this manual are written in COBOL85.
Who Should Read This Manual?
This manual will be of interest to anyone involved with designing event messages or
designing and coding applications that will use event message management. This
includes system managers and programmers who use the Event Management Service
and are installing EMS FastStart.
What You Should Know
System managers and programmers should be familiar with the GUARDIAN 90
operating system and the Event Management Service software. Programmers should be
familiar with C, COBOL85, or TAL.
What This Manual Covers
This manual consists of seven sections and five appendixes as follows:
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Section 1, Introduction, presents a broad view of the EMS FastStart program
including its applications and uses; required hardware and software; how to choose
between EMS and EMS FastStart; and information about running EMS FastStart.
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Section 2, Brief Review of Event Design, is a review of event message design and a
set of instructions with examples to help you optimize event message design in order
to make the best use of EMS FastStart.
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Section 3, Installing and Configuring EMS FastStart, describes the program
installation and configuration, how to modify the Compiler Configuration File
(CCF), and security considerations.
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Section 4, Preparing the Application Configuration File, describes the Application
Configuration File (ACF), including a listing of the default file and instructions for
modifying it to fit your application's needs.
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Section 5, Running EMS FastStart, tells you how to run (and stop) the program and
includes an example of the program output you see on your terminal. This section
also lists the user subvolume files and briefly describes the resulting program
components.
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Section 6, Building Your Application for Event Generation, is the most important
section for programmers. It tells you the tasks to perform to build your own
application and generate your event messages with EMS FastStart.