Micro Focus External File Handler
• Intercept all COBOL File I/O operations as they take place at the I/O layer:
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Implement Custom Replication
Implement Custom Security
Assist Auditing
Implement Custom Encryption
• Open up the COBOL file system and all COBOL file types to dynamic access and access by
other programming languages, API’s, frameworks, and hybrid/public cloud services, etc.
Utils
Host
Connect
PL1
COBOL
apps
Mainframe
Data I/O Manipulation
Encryption
Security
Redirection
I/O
COBOL Data
Files
Enterprise Servers
External
File handler
Web
Services
API s
JAVA/
C#
Database
I/O
Direct
I/O
Other App Servers
Mainframe
Data Stores
Hybrid/ Public
Cloud