On 03/23/10 13:14, Jousma, David wrote:
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.
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From what I remember TKLM was primarily designed for IBM's encrypting
DASD product. Since it can serve keys to tape drives as easily as it can
to DASD, IBM started pushing the migration off of free EKM to the new
priced product.
I can't speak for IBM but it would be nice if they allowed users of
their tape encrypting solution to use TKLM for free as a drop in
replacement for EKM, while keeping their pricing structure for users of
their encrypting DASD product.
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