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.

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.
Click the XA Resources tab.

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 database specific: esmssql.dll/.so for MSSQL, and ESPGSQLXA.dll/.so for PostgreSQL. Refer to Building RM Switch Modules for more information.
Open string	`DSN=<datastore-dsn>, LOCALTX=T` where `<datastore-dsn>` is the ODBC data source name of the datastore you are configuring. Note: These are mandatory options required, with the addition of `USRPASS=userid.password` if you are using a PostgreSQL database. You can also specify further non-mandatory options, as detailed in To Define an XA Resource (XAR) for an Enterprise Server Region.

Select Enabled.
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.