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DFSMS Cloud Data Access

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Save Cloud Credentials, in ICSF, via Batch job instead of GDKAUTHP ISPF Panel.

we would like to be able to save credentials (GCP Service Account Json file) via a Batch job instead of manually updating them (GDKAUTHP ISPF Panel). This could be done by submitting a batch job from a pipeline service, in combination with a new K...
14 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Under review

API Calls in Java in addition to assembler, Cobol and C++

I have customers who writes all the programs for mainframe in Java. New developers are better writting Java code rather than others. The tools for development are in workstation and they test their programs on the workstation. My idea is to have t...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Consistent gdkdel response across cloud providers when object not found

AWS returns HTTP 204 (No content) for an object delete when the object is not found. The 204 HTTP response is a successful HTTP response (200 series) and due to that, gdkdel returns its successful return code 0. The gdkdel API documents the follow...
21 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Submitted

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

CDA plugin on Zosmf

We're using CDA (DHSMS) more and more to feed S3 Buckets that are managed by colleagues on OPEN teams who are less at ease with the z/OS world.They'd like to be able to use z/osmf to list the Buckets defined for a user and possibly enter the acces...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Using GCP Workload Identity Federation in DFSMS Cloud Data Access

We've had discussions, about the security, with our internal Cloud Core team and they're suggesting to use GCP Workload Identity Federation instead of GCP service account json file and it's going to improve the security issues significantly.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Download RECFM U

If i UPLOAD an RECFM U dataset like a DFDSS DUMP, at DOWNLOAD process the receiving file doesn't have the structure has the UPLOAD process had. So the DOWNLOADED file can't be use to restore file. If you can't improve the DOWNLOAD process ca you a...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

Allow a cloud multipart object via gdkwrite/gdkget apis to restart on a particular part

It would be useful to allow a program using GDK_EXIT_DATALOCATION (streaming send exit) to resume sending data for a multi-part object. For receiving cloud data I believe I can use range start and end to restart receiving data, but I didn't see an...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Future consideration

CDA Addressing 64 bytes

I call API from 64 bytes programs and there is some trouble when CDA calls in 31 bit adressing API WEB Toolkit.
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Future consideration

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