Thank you, will support for S3-compatible APIs from on-prem stores be added?
Say minIO... ?


On Thursday, April 17th, 2025 at 20:08, Glenn Wilcock <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Exactly:
> 
> Foundation:
> 1) CDA base: Configure a Cloud provider (end point, credentials (security 
> admin), settings)
> 2) RACF authorize a user to use the defined cloud provider. This gives the 
> security admin the role of managing the credentials and who can access which 
> cloud provider accounts. (One for backup, one for ApplicationX, one for 
> test...)
> 3) GDKUTIL: Simple JCL to upload / download from z/OS of defined cloud 
> provider (can convert between codepages, eg EBCDIC to ASCII and back to 
> EBCDIC) This allows you to test your configuration and do small scale 
> movement.
> 
> Now you have your base to leverage object storage:
> 1) Utilize one of the DFSMS products to target object storage: DFSMShsm, 
> DFSMSdss, DFSMScdm and OAM all use the CDA defined cloud providers
> 2) Your own application owners can put/get data directly to object storage 
> via the 2nd aspect of CDA which are the S3 APIs. Why use CDA? In step one, 
> you defined the provider: IBM, AWS, Azure, Google... CDA leverages a single 
> API for PUTs / GETs and then based on the provider, will create the specific 
> request for that provider. (The greatest benefit of CDA is that it manages 
> the credentials. Each of these providers have very different methods to 
> authenticate, and your application owner does not have to know any of that).
> 
> CDA: https://www.ibm.com/support/z-content-solutions/cda/
> 
> Glenn Wilcock ([email protected])
> DFMSMS Chief Product Owner
> 
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