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Azure: Add OAuth Bearer Token Support

Currently, the CDA product supports several authentication methods, but it does not support OAuth. In order to support the existing authentication methods, like "SharedKey", Azure admins would have to enable settings that they otherwise might have...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Allow RACF to protect the Enable attach/detach crypto as a separate class of device from non-crypto devices

With the expansion of security concerns surrounding workload and therefore the increase in demand for crypto functionality. It has become imperative that we control the access to the crypto domains, which could be done by restricting attach/detach...
4 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Virtualize System Recovery Boost (SRB) so z/OS guests can exercise SRB code paths.

For z/OS development environments hosted as z/VM guests, this would enable System Recovery Boost code paths to be exercised for things like SMF records, etc.
5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add an Option to enable multi thread when using GDKUTIL

We are challenged to increase the transfer speed using GDKUTIL, we try to play with the ChunkSize with no big improvement, the main issue is that GDKUTIL is mono thread. Can you add the ability to use multi thread in CDA ?
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

pre-signed url

Hello, We want to generate from z/OS a pre-signed url for an object whose bucket is configured via gdkutil Best regards,
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Enter, update, delete and validate cloud credentials from z/OSMF

The user to enter and verify their cloud credentials (same as in the ISPF panel)
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

SSHD Support for zVM OS

SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
8 months ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Create an environment variable on /usr/lpp/dfsms/gdk/providers

Hello, Seems the ZFS for the System was in R/O can you create an environment variable like for the Resolver ? For now we create a Symbolic link to manage CDA for exemple ln -s /datas/gdk/providers /usr/lpp/dfsms/gdk/providers RESOLVER_CONFIG envir...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration