Attention: This feature is in Early Adopter Product (EAP) release status. We will continue the development of additional features and
provide additional interfaces via patch updates and future releases. Please contact
Micro Focus SupportLine if you require further clarification.
The
Micro Focus Database File Handler (or MFDBFH for short) is a file handler that enables your native CICS and batch enterprise server applications
to interact with data files and certain infrastructure files stored within a database.
Applications that use this file handler require no changes to their file handling source code, but you are required to make
a number of changes to the environment in which those applications run.
Broadly speaking, you are required to:
- Configure a number of ODBC data sources.
- Maintain a configuration file that references the sources.
- Configure the enterprise server region to use the data sources, either to connect to data files within a datastore database,
or to utilize region and cross-region databases in the running of certain Enterprise Server features.
- If you are using database-hosted data files, you must also create and configure the datastores, for which there is a command
line utility (dbfhdeploy) to maintain the data files in a datastore database.
Enterprise Server currently supports Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Db2 as the database solution, accessed using ODBC
or (for Db2 only) direct connection strings.