Micro Focus Native Database File Handling and Enterprise Server Region Database Management

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, Microsoft Azure, PostgreSQL, or Db2 as the database solution, accessed using ODBC or direct connection strings.