Phil Smith III wrote: >(Note that Im using the Pervasive Encryption term >in the sense that IBM did when it was first introduced: >the whole-data set encryption on z/OS. More recently >theyve expanded it to mean the entire IBM encryption >strategy, which is still developing and not particularly >integrated yet; Camerons question seemed to be entirely >about the former, as were the replies.)
Phil, I don't think your assertion is true, but, regardless, what's the problem with granting another vendor the courtesy of referring to its products and offerings by the names they give them? If you're referring to z/OS Data Set Encryption, then use the name z/OS Data Set Encryption. Otherwise you're just trying to cause confusion, not reduce it. As it happens, IBM includes application-level encryption as part of its Pervasive Encryption strategy. See, for example, Section 1.4.2 in this redbook (the "pyramid"): http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248410.pdf Obviously IBM is not opposed to application-level encryption! It's right there, at the top of the pyramid. Shouldn't you be happy with that? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
