I have tried to modify PIPEDDR to use a TAPE stage so that V/Soft's product will properly encrypt the data. It already works fine for TAPE|VMFPLC2|FILEDEF tape manipulations. There is also an OLD sourceless program on the IBM downloads page CKDSVRST (sp?) that might also be capable of reading/writing data that can be encrypted by a 3rd party product. I would be interested in talking to anyone who wants to code this stuff from scratch as an alternative to DDR.
The hardware solution of encrypted tape drives is pushed alot because z/OS has so much data that should be encrypted and z/VM can use them too, but not as friendly as if you were strictly z/OS. What I haven't figured out about them is how to prove to the security auditors that the data is REALLY encrypted. I am at an IBM/Oracle class this week, but if you want, you can call me next week. /Thomas Kern /U.S. Dept of Energy /Germantown, MD /301-903-2211 --- Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick, > > Thanks. Yes, I have looked at V/Soft's solution also. A minor > correction, their web site has a dash in the domain name: > > http://www.vsoft-software.com > > Aria. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
