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In today's world of cloud storage, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is one of the popular solutions for storing large amounts of data securely, affordably, and reliably. Interacting with S3 storage can be done via several methods. One of the most efficient ways to move files seamlessly from local storage to S3 storage is through AWS Mountpoint for S3 , a lightweight, high-performance file system client designed to make S3 buckets accessible like regular local directories. As an XCOM Data Transport for Linux user, if you want to interact with S3 storage to send/receive files, you can leverage software like AWS mountpoint. This blog post will guide you ...

You use XCOM load module XCOMJOB to schedule or execute transfers with XCOM for z/OS, v12.0. You can integrate invoking XCOMJOB into your workflows to complete transfers as part of your workflow. If you're interested in invoking XCOM for z/OS using Python on z/OS, you can use the example in this blog to help you get started. This blog example uses a PuTTY connection to the z/OS shell in the USS environment and the following Python version to run the example script. $ python --version Python 3.9.16 The script invokes the IBM z/OS Open Automation Utilities (zoautil_py) to simplify some of the system operations needed to setup required datasets before ...

Improving XCOM Data Transport transfers with TLSv1.3 You can use a network service proxy to incorporate improved TLS features into your XCOM Data Transport transfers. This blog will show an example of using XCOM Data Transport between z/OS and Linux (RHEL 8.6) to create transfers that are secured between the systems using TLSv1.3. While the example focuses on Linux transfers, the same concepts may be applied to other environments (e.g. Windows) where you have a TLSv1.3 capable network service proxy. Sending data to z/OS Your XCOM Data Transport z/OS started task will be the server in this first scenario, listening for suitable remote connections. ...