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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 5, 2019

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Enable one-way location for text xfer to open platforms

Object storage is an infrastructure which supports both open and mainframe environments. While certain datatypes are not compatible it is possible to share basic text files between the two environments. CTC should support the capability for writing basic text files to an object storage so that an unmanaged open system can download and work with the data. In addition to writing the data out to object it should also be translated from EBCDIC to ASCII.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 31, 2020

    Responding to request for additional information... Clients would like to be able to leverage CTC as an alternative to FTP when wanting to send data from the mainframe to an open system. To facilitate CTC should support a server definition which sends the data without any associated meta-data or data-wrappers so that the data can be easily processed by a non-CTC, S3 compliant client running on another platform. In addition it would also be beneficial if the CTC server definition could allow for the client to optionally provide an EBCDIC to ASCII translation table so that the data placed in the S3 target will be readable upon download. It is recognized that this capability would only be viable for basic, text based data files.

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