Hi Thomas, Talk to Dave Jones, my understanding is that he is working on a solution to allow Encrypt/Plus to encrypt DDR (when running under CMS). So you'd need an unencrypted starter system on file 1 of your restore tape with your Encrypt/Plus keys on it. Restore that unencrypted starter system and use it (with the Encrypt/Plus keys) to restore your production system from the encrypted tapes.
PS: Feel free to contact me off-list if you like, as I am sure we have similar agendas...... :) Michael Coffin, President MC Consulting Company, Inc. 57 Tamarack Drive Stoughton, Massachusetts 02072 Voice: (781) 344-9837 FAX: (781) 344-7683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mccci.com -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Encryption options for DDR 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
