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 or connection strings.
- Maintain a configuration file that references the sources and connections.
- Configure enterprise server regions and/or applications to use the data sources\connections, 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, using the command line utility
dbfhdeploy to upload existing or create new data files in a datastore database.
Enterprise Server currently supports Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, PostgreSQL, Db2, and Oracle as the database solution.