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DFSMS Cloud Data Access

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Remove secret key in ISPF panel

Hi, Today we store the secret key in a vault, to reduce handling of the secret key. To secure the buckets we do not want to enter the Secret key in the ISPF panel. We want a mechanism allowing us to indicate the path of a file in the mainframe whi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Add Metadata on object storage

Hi, We need to add some metadata when we download file to Object storage. Like sysplex_name, Lpar_name, record_format, dataset_organisation User_name etc.. The goal is to have more information on the files, and to secure object. It should be possi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

GDKUTIL setup exec SYS1.SAXREXEC(GDKAUTHP) Cloud Provider List should not always be empty if ~/gdk/providers exists

The developers of this utility have asked me to open an RFE for this change. See IBM case TS010292335 where I note that: Doc for GDKUTIL mentions that the following dirs should be created as follows in case local customization is needed: mkdir ~/g...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Enable alternate credentials for use with OAM's cloud support

Today, the cloud data access (CDA) component of DFSMS (used by OAM's object support) only allows a single set of credentials to be associated with a specified cloud provider (container). There are circumstances (perhaps a disaster recovery test) w...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered