Summary of changes

February 2021

Cloud Storage Solutions system requirements is updated to say that both HOSTNAME and DMNNAME must be correctly configured before Cloud Storage Solutions is installed.

June 2020

Google Cloud Storage is added as a supported cloud service provider.

November 2017

Cloud Storage Solutions Advanced Edition

Cloud Storage Solutions is now available in an Advanced Edition. The Advanced Edition includes file compression and at rest file encryption. The basic edition includes features in previous releases, plus SSL transfer encryption, and a job monitor that tracks file transfers.

Cloud Storage Solutions Advanced Edition is available to everyone for 70 days after installation. After 60 days you will be prompted with warnings that Advanced Edition features will expire, and that you can upgrade to the Advanced Edition at any time. After 70 days you will only have basic edition features.

Compression, encryption, and SSL

You can configure Cloud Storage Solutions to compress files before copying them to the cloud to improve transfer performance with very large files. You can configure Cloud Storage Solutions to encrypt files before copying them to the cloud, so that they are encrypted while "at rest" in the cloud. And you can configure Cloud Storage Solutions to encrypt files while the files are being transferred to and from the cloud.

Compression and "at rest" encryption are available with the Cloud Storage Solutions Advanced Edition. Transfer encryption is available with all editions.

Job monitor

The job monitor tracks file transfers to maintain accurate information in the Cloud Storage Solutions database and send that information to the Cloud Storage Solutions exit point. It includes two jobs, QICCJOBMON and QICCEXTPRC, that must always be running in the Cloud Storage Solutions subsystem (QICCSBS).