Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives a broad understanding of storage clouds and the initial functionality that was introduced for mainframe data to be transferred to cloud storage.
IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) and the IBM DS8000® added functionality to provide elements of serverless data movement, and for IBM z/OS® to communicate with a storage cloud. The function is known as Transparent Cloud Tiering and is composed of the following key elements:
•A gateway in the DS8000, which allows the movement of data to and from Object Storage by using a network connection.
•DFSMShsm enhancements to support Migrate and Recall functions to and from the Object Storage. Other commands were enhanced to monitor and report ...