Introduction
After you install or upgrade Thoroughbred Basic, you can modify and optimize it to fit smoothly within the environment defined by your hardware and operating system. As you develop, maintain, or enhance applications the information in this manual will help you tailor Thoroughbred Basic to meet current and future site requirements.
How you use this manual depends on whether your needs are immediate or long-term:
- If you have just installed Thoroughbred Basic please refer to After an installation.
- If you have just upgraded Thoroughbred Basic please refer to After an upgrade.
- If you have no immediate plans to customize or tune Thoroughbred Basic please refer to Long-range Planning.
After an Installation
Section titled “After an Installation”To customize and tune Thoroughbred Basic after an installation you can perform the following tasks:
- If you need to create a terminal type to fully establish your system console as a terminal Thoroughbred Basic can efficiently use, please refer to How to Establish Terminals.
- To define your system terminals to Thoroughbred Basic please refer to How to Establish Terminals.
- To define your system printers to Thoroughbred Basic please refer to How to Establish Printers.
Apart from these three tasks, you may have no immediate need for customization and tuning. Because site requirements will change as you develop Thoroughbred Basic applications, it is a good idea to skim through the rest of this manual so that you can anticipate future needs and help plan future modifications to the Thoroughbred Basic environment. For more information on the contents of this manual please refer to Long-range Planning.
After an Upgrade
Section titled “After an Upgrade”Because you copied or restored the IPLINPUT, TERMINAL, and up to three TCONFIG files as part of your upgrade, you have preserved the environment your site established for previous releases of Thoroughbred Basic.
In all likelihood, you have no immediate need for customization and tuning, but you may want to review the information in this manual to determine whether further modifications will enhance your system. For more information on the contents of this manual please refer to the following section.
Long-range Planning
Section titled “Long-range Planning”Your need to customize and tune Thoroughbred Basic will depend primarily on two factors:
- Site hardware may change.
- Application development can foster sets of site requirements that evolve or change as an application is designed, coded, debugged, maintained, and enhanced.
- This manual
- contains information on:
- Terminals
- Over time, you will probably add, replace, or remove terminals. You can use the information in How to Establish Terminals to define all your terminals to Thoroughbred Basic.
- Printers
- Many sites use certain printers to perform specific tasks. The printer you use when you develop an application may not be the printer you use when the application is placed in production. You can use the information in How to Establish Printers to define site printers to Thoroughbred Basic.
- Directories
- The ability to create and manipulate directories helps organize files and determine how information is stored. You can use the information in How to Establish Directories to make directories available to Thoroughbred Basic, create Thoroughbred Basic subdirectories, and prevent Thoroughbred Basic from recognizing directories.
- Ghost tasks
- Background tasks, also called ghost tasks, can run under Thoroughbred Basic. You can use the information in How to Establish Ghost Tasks to make ghost tasks available or unavailable to Thoroughbred Basic.
- User logins
- Some operating systems enable you to create Thoroughbred Basic user logins. These user logins allow users to login to Thoroughbred Basic, not to the operating system. The recommended way to manage any user login is to use the system administration capabilities of your operating system. However, under some circumstances, you can use the information in How to Establish User Logins to create or delete Thoroughbred Basic user logins.
- Activation Key
- If you have not activated Thoroughbred Basic, you have thirty days to validate your system. You can use the information in the section titled How to Get an Activation Key to obtain an Activation Key from Thoroughbred Software International.
- Services
- Thoroughbred Software International provides online documentation and training classes to address each customer's individual needs and requirements. For more information, please refer to the Thoroughbred Software Services section of this manual.
- System files
- IPLINPUT, TERMINAL, SERVER.MAP, TERM.MAP, TCONFIG, TCONFIG8, and TCONFIGW are files that Thoroughbred Basic uses to help manage the system environment. You can use the information in the Thoroughbred Basic Customization and Tuning Guide – System Files, to understand and modify these system files.
Each section mentioned above begins with an introduction that serves as a summation and a list of section contents. For more detailed information, please refer to the relevant sections for each topic.
From the Customization and Tuning Guide: Devices, version 8.9.1. Open this page in the PDF