Fileshare provides MSS with VSAM data integrity, enabling you to use SYNCPOINT and SYNCPOINT ROLLBACK commands. Fileshare also enables you to access data files on other systems running on the same network as the machine running MSS.
MSS can connect to up to sixteen Fileshare Servers, giving you the option of splitting your data across several machines. You can also run a Fileshare Server as a separate process on the same machine running MSS. This means you can effectively test a network application without a network.
Fileshare Servers can be used for the following MSS resources:
Fileshare works in a client/server setup, with the Fileshare Server being the server and an MSS-enabled enterprise server being the Fileshare client. The two can communicate with each other over a variety of protocols. The support for these protocols is provided by Micro Focus Common Communications Interface (CCI) modules. You establish the protocols to be used by each server by specifying the appropriate CCI modules when you start the Fileshare Server. Fileshare files can still be accessed by non-MSS applications at the same time.
The remainder of this chapter explains how to set up both the Fileshare Server and the client region to communicate over these protocols.