Another useful article on IBM developerworks shows how to build PHP extensions using SWIG. You can find the article here.
Recital provides the following additional benefits:
- Easy to Install and Deploy - Users can set up Recital in minutes enabling organizations to deliver new applications faster than other databases.
- Easy to Administer - Recital is a low administration database that eliminates the need for highly trained, skilled, and costly database administrators to maintain the database.
- High Performance - Superior database performance for the most demanding of OLTP applications. Additionally, Clustered Recital provides 99.999% availability.
- Embeddable Library - Recital Embedded Edition provides in-process data storage engine that delivers all the features of a traditional relational database but in a size which makes it ideally suited for ISVs/VARs who need a small footprint and easy to use toolkit.
- Platform Independence - Recital runs on Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows, and Mac OS X giving organizations complete flexibility in delivering a solution on the platform of their choice.
This guide will assist you in setting up an rsnapshot backup server on your network. rsnapshot uses rsync via ssh to perform unattended backups of multiple systems in your network. The guide can be found on the centos website here.
In this article Yvonne Milne looks at the use of the Recital Remote Data Connectivity Functions with Recital Database Gateways.
USE accounts INDEX on account_no TAG outstanding FOR balance > 0 EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE balance > 0 Optimized using for condition on tag 'OUTSTANDING'
Yes, your FoxPlus and FoxPRO applications should run under Recital with little to no changes at all. We provide expert product support if you have any questions or problems. If you lack the resources to move your applications into Recital we can provide that service to you also if required.
SE Linux is a feature of the Linux kernel that provides mandatory access control. This policy based access control system grants far greater control over the resources on a machine than standard Linux access controls such as permissions.
Many modern Linux distributions are shipping with SELinux enabled by default, Fedora 14 and Rhel 6 both install with it enabled.
When you run Recital Web on a SELinux enabled machine and navigate to the default.rsp page you will see something similar to the screen shot below.

If you launch the SELinux troubleshooter you will see the following problem.
SELinux is blocking the apache server from accessing the Recital server running on port 8001.

To manage you SELinux policy you must have the policycoreutils package group installed. The policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system.
If you wish to use a GUI tool, you must install the policycoreutils-gui package.
At the command prompt execute the following:
As root
$ yum install policycoreutils
$ semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 8001
$ service recital restart
$ service httpd restart
We use the semanage command here to allow the http server access to port 8001. Once you have completed the steps detailed above you can go and navigate back to the default.rsp page in your borwser, where you will find the permission denied message is now replaced by the default.rsp page.

SELinux does a great job of restricting services and daemons so rather than simply disabling it, why not work with it!
When it comes to security, every little bit helps...
Here's how to set up field validation based on dynamic values from another table.
Using the products.dbf table from the southwind sample database, validation can be added to the categoryid field to ensure it matches an existing categoryid from the categories.dbf table.
open database southwindThe rlookup() function checks whether an expression exists in the index (master or specified) of the specified table . An attempt to update categoryid with a value not in the list will give an error: Validation on field 'CATEGORYID' failed.
alter table products add constraint;
(categoryid set check rlookup(products.categoryid,categories))
If you have access to the Recital Workbench, you can use the modify structure worksurface to add and alter your dictionary entries, including a customized error message if required.

The Openfiler NAS/SAN Appliance (NSA) is a Storage Management Operating System / NAS Appliance distribution. It is powered by the Linux 2.6 kernel and Open Source applications such as Apache, Samba, LVM2, ext3, Linux NFS and iSCSI Enterprise Target. Openfiler combines these ubiquitous technologies into a small, easy to manage solution fronted by a powerful web-based management interface. Openfiler allows you to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and/or Storage Area Network (SAN) appliance, using industry-standard hardware, in less than 10 minutes of installation time.
Building upon the popularity of server virtualization technologies such as VMware, Virtual Iron, and Xen, Openfiler can also be deployed as a virtual machine instance or on a bare metal machine.
This deployment flexibility of Openfiler ensures that storage administrators are able to make the best use of system performance and storage capacity resources when allocating and managing networked storage in a multi-platform environment.
Openfiler is ideally suited for use with High Availability Recital applications as it incorporates:
- Heartbeat cluster manager
- drbd disk replication
- CIFS
- NFS
- Software and hardware RAID
- FTP
- rsync
- HTTP/DAV
- iSCSI
- LVM2
- Multiple NIC bonding for High Availability
- Powerful web-based GUI
We are pleased to announce the release of Recital 10.0.3.
Here is a brief list of features and functionality that you will find in the 10.0.3 release.
- New Commands:
- SET TMPNAMPATH ON|OFF
- REMOVE TABLE - New Functions:
- CURSORGETPROP()
- CURSORSETPROP()
- CURVAL()
- GETFLDSTATE()
- OLDVAL()
- TABLEREVERT()
- TABLEUPDATE()
- SETFLDSTATE() - Enhanced Functions:
- TMPNAM() - additional parameter to specify the return of basename only
- MAILATTACH() - parameter changed from array to filename to allow directory and file extension to be specified - Enhancements:
- DO level increased from 32 to 64. - Fixes:
- Delay exiting Recital after SYS(3) or SYS(2015)
- SET SOFTSEEK issue when search key above first record in index
- Compilation error with REPLACE command after UDF call
- FETCH INTO memvars error
- END TRANSACTION at command prompt error
- ROLLBACK locking error
- Linux ODBC Driver undefined symbol error
- RELEASE variable with same name as variable in calling program issue
- SQLCODE() issue on non-gateway data access
- Issuing two SQLEXEC() calls error
- LASTSEQNO() in workareas > 1 error
- SET RELATION to detail table in workarea 1 issue
- LIST STATUS on empty table delay
- SET AUTOCATALOG alias entries error
- ADD OBJECT in DEFINE CLASS error
- DEACTIVATE WINDOW error
- SORT error
- Other reported bugs