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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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

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...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 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...
about 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...
almost 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Mainframe utility to access S3 for store and retrieval

With increased use of the cloud we are facing a need to have S3 interface available on z/OS for transferring data between z/OS and the cloud.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

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