Same here. Having a hard time swallowing a license fee for something that was/is free today. Don't want to put words into IBM's mouth, but since we had to pay for the encryption feature on the tape drives, and are now locked into it(lots of physical tapes encrypted), to start charging to supply those keys to new tapes doesn't seem quite right, since we are now locked in.
_________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services [email protected] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.8497 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Encryption software? On 03/23/10 12:50, Knutson, Sam wrote: > We heard via the rumor mill a last summer that EKM support is going away > and that we will have to migrate to TKLM or a competitive product in the > future. > The spectre of this occurring quickly was raised and then dismissed by > our IBM team. We are among customers who use EKM for backend tape > encryption and are not keen on moving to TKLM since EKM has been free > with z/OS and TKLM is priced, requires DB2, etc. > > My current understanding is that EKM will continue to be shipped with > z/OS but I don't know for how long. > > I have not seen an IBM Statement of Direction or announcement yet that > actually confirms that EKM will be withdrawn. > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/zos_sods.html > > Like other customers I need sufficient lead time to budget when a free > part is replaced with a non-free one even if the current part has some > gaps in it's functionality. EKM is not as robust a key manger as IBM > TKLM or CA-EKM but it's working today and free. > > We structure our DR process to insure we have the key data sets we need > at DR to recover and resume operation. > > EKM is a little quirky but it works for now meeting our minimum > requirements and it is free. > > > This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
