Create an XA Resource

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.

Your enterprise server region requires an XA resource for each datastore that contains one or more transactional files.

  1. In the table of servers on the Home page of Enterprise Server Administration, click Edit to the left in the row for the enterprise server region that references the transactional data file.
  2. Click the XA Resources tab.
  3. Specify the following XAR details:
    Option Description
    ID Unique ID for the XAR
    Name Unique name for the XAR
    Module Specify the location of the RM switch module executable file (.dll on Windows or .so on UNIX platforms). This is ESDB2XA.dll/.so for Db2. Refer to Building RM Switch Modules for more information.
    Open string Db=<database-name>, uid=<user-id>, pwd=<password>
    You can also specify further options as required, as detailed in To Define an XA Resource (XAR) for an Enterprise Server Region.
    Note: This connection is applicable to all datastores in the database, unless ID is the name of a particular datastore; in which case, the connection is only applicable to that datastore.
  4. Select Enabled.
  5. Click OK.

    The XA resource should be effectively immediately.

You can now proceed to configuring your CICS or batch (JCL) applications to use the file(s) in the datastore.

Parent topic: Configure Datastores for Db2
Previous topic: Create a Datastore and Upload a File to a Db2 Datastore
Related reference
To Define an XA Resource (XAR) for an Enterprise Server Region