The user datastore is the location of where you will store all user and group account information. There are three types of datastores, file per record, file and database.
The file per record and file datastore are similar in that they store all user account information in a directory located on the JSCAPE MFT Server machine. The difference between the two lies in how they store account information. In the file per record datastore separate files are created for each user and each group with a .usr or .grp extension respectively. In the file datastore a single file named accounts.dat is created to store account information and a single file named groups.dat is created to store group information. In both cases these files are stored in the specified store directory. The file per record datastore is much more efficient when managing a large number of users and is the default/recommended choice for file based datastores.
The database datastore stores all account and group information in a relational database which may be accessed using the JDBC connection parameters that you provide.
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Directory - The directory in which user account data will be stored. (file per record, file)
See also
Storing account details in a database