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We are wanting to connect to an external Database e.g. Oracle using the SQL Adapter in the Mobile Foundation service (not as the repository for the Mobile Foundation configuration).
As per:
https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/adapters/javascript-adapters/js-sql-adapter/
And from that link:
dataSourceJNDIName: Optional. Connect to the data source by using the JNDI name of a data source that is provided by the application server. The adapter takes the connection from the server connection pool that is associated with the JNDI name. Application servers provide a way to configure data sources. For more information, see Installing MobileFirst Server to an application server. For example:
<connectionPolicy xsi:type="sql:SQLConnectionPolicy">
<dataSourceJNDIName>my-adapter-ds</dataSourceJNDIName>
</connectionPolicy>
During our implementation of the mobile application, we encountered SQL Adapter connectivity problems resulting in poor user experience and quality of service. We want to configure the SQL connection using a connection pool so we have greater control over the connection e.g. concurrency and timeouts.
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There are two ways of connecting to SQL DB via SQL adapter:
1) Define the connection strings and credentials directly in the adapter.xml. Here there is no control over any tuning parameters.
2) Define a datasource in the application server and use it to connect. This allows applying all performance tuning parameters to the datasource ( outside MFP, at application server level) - connection pool, timeouts etc. Customer should adopt this approach. This is what customer mentioned above by setting dataSourceJNDIName