Progress
Results Administration
and Development Guide


The Fastload System

The fastload system is the set of r-code files that optimizes the configuration of Results at startup. Results automatically generates and updates the fastload system associated with the current QC7 file.

NOTE: A fastload system for a Results application should not exist in the user environment prior to the initial startup of the application. Do not distribute the fastload system for an application from the development environment to the user environment. The fastload system for a Results application in the user environment must be generated as part of the initial startup of the application and must reflect the application directory structure implemented in the user environment.

Follow these steps to start and generate a fastload system for a Results application in an end-user environment:

  1. Start up Results. The order of the application databases specified in the startup command must be in the same order as used to generate the QC7 file in the development environment. For information about startup commands for Results, see Results for Administrators and Programmers."
  2. At startup, Results checks the QC7 file for information about the required application databases. The QC7 file contains an integer, called a checksum number, for each application database from the development environment. The checksum number for a database is the sum of the last schema modification date for each table in the database. Results compares the checksum numbers from the development environment against the modification dates of the application databases in the user environment. If there is a difference, then the following warning message appears:
  3. Choose No to continue with the initial startup without rebuilding the table relationships.

  4. After analyzing the application databases, Results checks for the existence of a fastload system. If it cannot find one, it displays the following error message:
  5. When you dismiss this error message, Results uses the QC7 to configure the features, menu system, and toolbar. This initial configuration process might take awhile because Results cannot use a compiled fastload system.

  6. Exit Results. Before shutdown, Results updates the QC7 file with new checksum numbers for the application databases and regenerates the fastload system for the installation.

Your Results application is ready to use.


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