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DFSMS OAM

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.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Planned for future release

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.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Not under 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.
over 1 year 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

Add new parameter in SYS1.PARMLIB to allow OAM to use an optional LPAR name for zFS-resident objects

Currently, when OAM accesses objects where the Primary copy is resident in zFS, the full filesystem pathname is built dynamically, and one of the elements in the pathname is the LPAR name. In cases where an OAM environment is moved to a different ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

Reconnecting OTIS after the corresponding Db2 was started in Maintenance Mode and later in Operating Mode ( OAM recognize this this )

When a Db2 instance is stopped and started normally the corresponding OAM and OTIS reconnect to it as expected. If this Db2 is stopped and started in Maintenance Mode OAM acknowledges this and reconnect to this Db2 when it is started afterwards in...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

add both compression and encryption support for OAM.

This is so the statement, Pervasive Encryption, is true. Not sure why this was missed in the first place, OAM must support compression and encryption so data can be protected.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

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