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DFSMS Cloud Data Access

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Use Multi thread when transferring an object

I have a dedicated network for using S3. When i have to transfer a hudge file the transfer took a long time and doesn't fully utilize the dedicated network. The idea is to use multi threading when the customer had big file to transfer.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

Use a presigned URL

Some user want to retrieve the object stored in an S3 using a presigned URL and not the bucket and provider name. They also want to store the object to S3 and have an URL link after the object is uploaded to S3. It will be perfect if they can UPLO...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Allow GDK APIs to run on zIIP

Please consider allowing the GDK APIs (primarily gdkget and gdkwrite with a streaming receive/send exit) to be called in with some ability to offload to a zIIP processor. I believe the z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit only supports task (TCB) mode, but...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

Add a subsystem for Cloud Data Access

To load a file to a cloud you need to read a source file and write target file to S3. If you want to load a file to an S3, sometimes you have a file who need to be transformed. On first step you transform a source file to a target file and after y...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

GDKUTIL enhancement

GDKUTIL is an utility program to upload/download between MVS datasets and S3 cloud object storage. It seems that right now the data encryption is solely relying on S3 server side encryption. Another security best practice is to enable client side ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

CDA add new SMF records

Hi, To secure & traceability the solution we need to have new SMF records. Cloud endpoint (url) Object name (file name transfert) MVS RACF user that did the work Bytes received/written Clock time Jobname/Stepname Best regards,
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Allow GDKUTIL input to be provided by a parm when called by a program

Might GDKUTIL accept a parameter when called by a program? Where the first three words point to areas that have the same information as those three DD statements provide? EG: WORD1 -> UPLOAD PROVIDER(S3CLOUD) CONVERT WORD2-> /johnh-21st-test...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

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