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DFSMS Cloud Data Access

Change generic key label used by CDA from GDK.<user>.** to a user format.

We are ready to use CDA but we have a trouble with the generic key label used by CDA. The format of generic key label used by CDA is GDK.<user>.** When we use ICSF we have a normalisation of key because we want to know if the key is stored t...
5 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Submitted

Increase througput when sending data to S3 cloud

We experience very poor performance when sending data dfsmsdss cda towards S3 cloud (max ~13MB/sec) Increasing the chunk size parts doesn't really help, because the current design of dfsmsdss cda does not allow a continuous flow of data streaming ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 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.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 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.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Future consideration

Need support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) when using CDA

We are attempting to use CDA to write to an AWS S3 bucket. We had initial setup issues but resolved them. We were trying to request some information from the client about obtaining the SECRET KEY, and were told that process was not allowed because...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Future consideration

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.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access Future consideration

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