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DFSMS OAM

OAM: Allow global defaults in CBROAMxx PARMLIB member

There are parameters in CBROAMxx that have to be specified for each Storagegroup individually. For us, that means 1068 lines of PARMLIB definition which are the same for each Storagegroup. In times of simplification, it should be possible to defin...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Planned for future release

OAM S3: Implement ListObjects/ListObjectsV2

The OAM S3 REST API should implement the ListObjectsV2 and/or ListObjects as this is a commonly used API in S3 Tools. This would help integrate with the S3 ecosystem more seemlessly.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Under review

OAM S3: Allow bucket names consistent with AWS S3 naming

The OAM S3 REST APIs should allow naming buckets consistent with the AWS S3 naming restrictions documented here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html. This allows a more seemless integration with the S3 ecos...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Under review

OAM S3: Allow object names consistent with AWS S3 naming

The OAM S3 REST APIs should allow naming objects consistent with the AWS S3 naming restrictions, i.e. 1024 byte UTF-8 (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-keys.html). This allows a more seemless integration with the S3 eco...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Under review

OAM access from C/C++

Similar to sample programs like CBROSR* we need a C/C++ interface program for accessing OAM.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

OAM recycle function should work similar to recycle in DFSMShsm

Hello,we're user of OAM and HSM for many years. We also have 16 VTS clusters in use.Of course, we also use the logical worm for our tapes.We'd like to have a more effective way (as HSM has) to recycle OAM tapes. With HSM we use HSEND recy ex all p...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

OAM should be fully initialized before issuing CBR3660A

In a disaster recovery test scenario when tape resources is less compared to the production environment, CBR3660A indicates threshold is breached, System Automation cannot use CBR3660A because it is issued before OAM is fully initialized.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Not under consideration

Replace CBRUXSAE OAM security exit with RACF STGADMIN profiles

The CBRUXSAE installation exit provides security authorization checking againstusers performing OSREQ transactions on object data. It is ASM code.We'd like a solution relying on RACF STGADMIN profiles.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

Heartbeat health check of OAM to ensure there are no issues

OAM does not put out messages to say it has issues in a number of scenarios causing impact to business due to lockups, memory exhaustion, waiting for response from DB2 etc.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

OAM Object support >2GB

OAM Large Object support should be enhanced to support objects with a size larger than 2GB per object.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration