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DFSMS Cloud Data Access

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GDKU0013I Add local name is DD:LOCAL

Hello, The objective is to have the name of the files transferred to the bucket (endpoint / Data_source / Data in object storage), without having to go to DEBUG with GDKU0013I With level(debug) DEBUG: DD:LOCAL is DataSet: true, name: FILE.NAME DEB...
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Planned for future release

Enhance CDA for Signed Payload and Improve Tracing

The Provider files do not currently have the parms needed to support SIGNED Payload, currently it's only support "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD" to use a signed payload we need to enhance CDA. Currently there is no tracing until the TOOLKIT is called as that i...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

Add Azure Support for CDA

We would like support in z/OS 2.4 to transfer data to and from MS Azure file and blob storage.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Planned for future release

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Planned for future release